Supposed Murder.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 78, 29 September 1896, Page 2

Supposed Murder.

(Per Press Association. I Chkistchubch, Sept. 28. At the adjourned inquest on the human remains found at Ohoka on September 14, held at Kaiapoi to-day, the evidence of Drs Parsons and Skynes show that there were four distinct fractures of the skull and traces of blood found in the hair and on deceased's shirt. The remains were found in a gorse hedge on Mr J. S. White's land. There is a hut about 200 yards away, which for years has been used by swaggers. The police theory is that the deceased, while staying in this hut with other swaggers, was murdered and his body placed where it was found. No definite evidence as to identification was forthcoming. It had been ascertained that a life insurance policy, a renewal notice in respect of which was found on the body, was issued to a man j named Ohlsen. Oblsen's father lives at Sydney and has received no news of his sou for some considerable time, but whereas Ohlsen is 29 years of age, the police are of opinion the man whose body has been found was about; forty years old. The jury, after a brief retirement, returned a verdict " That the deceased unknown had been murdered by a person, or persons unknown, and that the body had afterwards been placed where found." The jury also suggested that the contents of the swag should be carefully washed and preserved for identification, and that the Government should offer a substantial reward for the Gonviction of the murderers.