AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER'S DEATH

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 153, 24 March 1920, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER'S DEATH

THE AUCKLAND MYSTERY. i i (Rec. March 23, 10.15 n.m.) Sydney, March 23. The police are making investigations regarding the death of Trooper. Sim, who*) body was found in Auckland Harbour. Detectives searched the 'Malieno on nrrival, but were unable to trace the jiorso'n wanted—Press Assn.

[Tile body of an Australian trooper, William Henry Marwick Sim, was found in Auckland Harbour last Wednesday. Subsequent to the holding of an inqurst it was discovered that a «CIOO bank-note, known, to have been in possession of deceased 'it week rigd, had been cashed by another person, whereas only .£4 Is. 9(1. was on the body. Thereupon the Coro ner deemed it expedient to stop th_? Interment of the corpse mid order a "postmortem examination. Examination of the head revealed marks which might havo been caused bv a blow or fall, while it is understood that there wore other indications not inconsistent with the theory of foul play. A further devilment was the arrest on a charse of theft of tho J!100 note of Oscar P.wl Fairbuni, aged 32, who was a fellow-passenger of deceased by the Ulimaroa from Australia. As the matter stands at present the inquest is adjourned, end Tnirburn is remanded in custody on tho thc/t charge,]