THE SEVERED LEG

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1877, 26 June 1888, Page 3

THE SEVERED LEG

♦ A Christchuroh paper says that on Thursday a resident of New Brighton informed Inspector Pender that he had m the morning fonnd a man's leg on the beach about four milea to the northward of the township. It had a boot on, and had apparently been m the water for some little time. The Inspector went to New Brighton, and sent on Constable Cleary with a trap o fetch down the limb. A rumor waa started m New Brighton that the owner of the limb was tha escaped convict Roberts, Borne persons saying they had seen a light on tht sea outside the breakers, opposite New Brighton, a few nights after the escape was made. From particulars given to him by the finder of the limb, Inspector Pender thinks it has been m the water too long to be one of Roberts', and moreover, that it is not large enough.

(PKR PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Christciiurch, Juno 25. It was supposed that, tha man's leg found on tho New Brighton beach w»s that; of Jonathan R >bertp, and a warder wat sent for from the Lyttel on gaol to examine tho bo. t which was on the foot He at once s*ld it naa not s prieon hoot. This afiernoon another leg and p»rt of a tblgh bone wore found near where the first relio was discovered. It is now supposed they are the bones of the German, who was drownod while fishing off Lyttolton Heads about three months ag^. i . __ . ..