THIRD BODY FOUND AFTER FIRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 47, 11 March 1937, Page 4

THIRD BODY FOUND AFTER FIRE

-Press AssaolationJ

Otago Mystery Still Unsolved ONE MAN IDENTIFIED

(By Telegraph—

DUNEDIN, Last Night. Thre© men, not two as was first presumed, perished in the fire in the old house by fhe Taieri river at Henlev on Saturday night. This revelation in the mystery, the identity of only one of th« victims having yet been proved, was .mad© at the pathological examinations of the remains yesterday after the inquest on the two bodies had been opened. When the fire burned itself out in the early hours of Sunday morning tw0 piles of ashes and remnants of bones were tound in the debris of the front room on the bottom floor. The first remains were recovered inside the room where the first farmer to arrive aft the blazing building saw a body in fiames. The other remains were found just insid© the door four feet away from the other body. When the fir# was raging three or four Henley settlers saw t^o bodies in the flamoa, while others have since stated that they saw three bodies, That a third man was incinerated in the fierce blaze 4s now positively established. Yesterday an examination of the two piles of remains was made by Dr. R. McAlister Wylie. of Outram. Tbe first set of bones was proved to be the remains of one adult, but the bones collectdd from the debris near the door were found to be those of two adults. The third man is believed to be a? elderly stranger to the district who wa given a lift in a motor car towardi Otokia on Saturday afternoon by a young man. Hp asked if there were any empty houses at Henley, and the young settler told him there were two or three, Bnt he did not direct him to any.