THE HUMAN REMAINS FOUND NEAR NELSON.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1336, 9 November 1872, Page 2

THE HUMAN REMAINS FOUND NEAR NELSON.

The following was some of the evidence given at the inquest held on the body of a man recently found in the neighborhood, of Nelson : — William Henry Frewin: I am ten years of age. I was walking after, cows on the hills near our house a little after six o'clock last night, and I found a man lying with his stomach on the ground. I ran homo and told my father, and went back with him to the place. About eight weeks ago, after four o'clock in the afternoon, when I was going after the cows, I saw a man lying in the same place where I found the body yesterday. He was making a sort of groaning noise at the time. I was close to him, and thought he was tipsy, as he was rolling about and making 'a noise. He had his face on his arm. He did not look up, nor did I apeak to him. s John Jer vis :lam a licensed victualler. I recognise the stick, the watch chain, ring, and piece of Pawau shell produced' as having belonged to a man named Rodolfe De Campo. I produce a letter addressed to him and received by me since he was missing. He came to my house on the 4th August last. He stayed there as a boarder, and left on Weduesday, the 4th September, at about halfpast nine. He did not sjo away as though , he was leaving. He owed me a small account of L 2 ss, and said, on the previous Monday, that he would settle on the following Thursday, the day on which he was to have been married. Enquiries were made about him, but nobody could tell what had become of him. His carpetbag and a pair of boots are still at my house as he left them. His hair was a dark brown. I have seen the remains, and, from the clothing and height, I believe them to .be those of the same man. At the latter part of his stay with me he appeared to be short of money. [A letter, n Italian, Bent from Westport, was here read. It referred to some money the writer owed deceased.] Elizabeth Devauey : lam living with my father, Andrew Devaney, in Hardystreet, I knew Mr De Campo. I las

saw him on Tuesday night, the 3rd of September, in the evening, he seemed in low spirits. On the Friday before he showed me a paper which he said was a cheque for LB3O. He carried it in a dark brown pocket-book with an elantic band round it. He said his cousin had said that he was a married man ; that it was not true, and that he was ashamed to put his head outside the door for fear people believed it. He appeared to spend money as freely one time as another. He did not give me LSO. He did not say anything to make me believe he would commit suicide. I have neither seen ncr heard from him since the 3rd September last.

The verdict was that the evidence went to prove that the remains found on Thursday last were those of Bodolfe de Caropo, who, there was reason to believe, died, on or about the 4th September, but how, or by what means he came by his death there was no evidence to prove.