A DISCOVERY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1311, 11 October 1872, Page 3

A DISCOVERY.

[MELBOUBNE ARGUS.] ■ A remarkable discovery, indicating that there is more to be discovered, was made on Friday, 20th tilt, at Brighton, near the beach. There is a large block of land belonging to Mr Oharlea Watts, of Market street, agent for the Overland Mail ExSress, and adjoining the property of Mr . Matthew Smith, solicitor, and on this block of land, at one end, there is an unoccupied house surrounded by a garden. There was a slip-panel in the fence, but with' a view of excluding rude herd boys a wire fence was pnt up, closing the panel. Mr Morrison, tea-broker, of the dairy farm, Brighton, informs us that on Friday a son of Mr Watts went down to the empty bouse, and was astonished to find a horse in the garden. The wire had been pulled down. The horse was harnessed, and on looking around the young man saw a spring-cart partly concealed by shrubs and other plants. The cart was embellished with a large variety of baskets, and was evidently that of a basket hawker. There is a well about 20 feet deep, and nearly full of water, near the house, and a pocketbook was noticed floating on the surface, the trap-door to the man-hole having decayed. It was then supposed that the driver of the cart had fallen down the tamed the well was thoroughly dragged. The searchers succeeded in recovering a pair of trousers, a coat, a hat, a pair of boots, and a shirt, several photographs, and a bundle containing a suit of garments better than the others, apparently "Sunday cloches," but no body was found. It was ascertained by the local police that the person who owned the cart had employed a man to drive it, and that he considered this man to be not quite right in the head at times. The driver's photograph was amongst those found in the well. The papers and letters in the pocket-book referred to family natters, and did not indicate that the deceased contemplated suicide. According to the information obtained by the local police, the man had no reason to abscond. It is supposed that the driver most have become insane, and have run naked into the scrub, or drowned himself in the bay.