A FRIGHTFUL DEATH.

Evening Star, Issue 4216, 31 August 1876, Page 4

A FRIGHTFUL DEATH.

On Saturday afternoon John M'P.herson lodged information ..at the Police ("amp at ' Xiftwxence that he had discovered the dead , body $f a man in a hut at Bungtown, which 'iittd been jiartMly eaten by rats, and from appearances, unfortunate individual, who had been working aaa hatter, must have been dead for' some time." At the inquest "MTheYsorr, in the course of his evidence,

said—"l found tie body whilst employed burning grass at Bungtown Creek. It lay ■i-o& Ja -tfe® ihJttleCoK scrub. " Deceased was covered with a jpiece of old blanket, and some old rice tiags. Oh the body there was an old tattered blue shirt, and a pair of much worn moleskin-trousers. - Two pairs of boots stood near tha bedside, but there were none on the fefeV of deceased. I did not hut; at the time I discovered the body. - Sergeant Shury, who visited the hnt the next day and took charge of the body, said: "The body was ,rja«c§decomposed. One eye was; completely gone, and the skin was peefthg off the corpse. The body/nras dressed in a shirt and pair of did moleskin trousers. The only provisions fax the hut were H. ; package.- of tea one pound weight, a small quantity of sugar, and a Temnaafcof a loaf ofAreacU" ; ; Other witnesses identified the body as that of "French Jack," who had lived a solitary life in the neighborhood of Bungtown for ten years; ' 'Brwiewart's'opinion was that the man had been dead folly six weeks before the body was found ; that its emaciation was due to the want of proper nourishment, Tout that it was too decompo§ed* to enable him to say what had .been the cause of death. A verdict of "found dead " was'returned.