MELBOURNE TRAGEDY

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1924, Page 3

MELBOURNE TRAGEDY

MYSTERY OF LIST

AUSTRALIAN ANl> N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION .HKJ.HOL'KNi;, .1 :m. SIS. List still continues to evade his pursuers. It is believed that he may either have drowned himself in the Yarru, or in one of the numerous (|U!iitv holes at Kiehuioiid, or may have made his way to one of the lonely hamlets in the buck country, which arc without police. since the poliee strike, all the members of the force havinp been called to the capital. Another theory is that he i- disputed as ;i woman, his figure Icmlinp it-elf admirahly to such a disguise. The f|Uestion lots also heen raised as to whether lie was the perpetrator ot a robbery in it pastiyeonk's s!;op at .Malvern on i ~:iI unlay Hipju W hen a yoliny woman a i tail! tv a ahoiil to shut the .Imp, a dark, ill-shaven man ttitli Jiis hat ernsherl over Ins eves, entered the shop, produced a revolver, and cried: -Far Cod’s -ale ; ..iyo me sou... cake-.” llohlin; (|. revolver :i;rjj|h: lie ! cad. he sec/., d a block ot cake, a puantitv ~1 pastry. and then, .fluorine the till. 1, cseapcl oti ;i inolor cycle. STOKY OF HIS HISTORY. M l«.l.lllini\K, dan. :W. I’nri iciihii s supplied by his relations -how that List is need HI. He was an inveterate rover, lie is mu an enplueerinp .student, as he was at first described. hut iambi,-d from )>laco to place tnkinp iuhs at farm work and limber mills, and leaving them as it suited him. List was a prosit studenl of uiathemaiical problems ronnocled with astromiuiy and surveyinp and he had accumulated many volumes connected with fliC'O subjects. Some years apo lie worked his passupe from Australia to America, where he spoilt a eonsiderahle lime in trampinp about the States and in .Mexico, doinp larminp ami other work. Thence he went to Fuplaml, and he served in the Kritish Armv durinp the war. Thoupli he is a smallish man. I.i t is powerful. He has been known as a preai ' ;rai’ler’’ and he had no ditItcullv in sceurinp work, lie returned to Australia in November last. Since then he has heen knoekiop about the country districts, employed at timbei mills and harvest inp. A few days before tile Uapedy last left a harvesting job at l.averton, and came lo reside with hi- lather, and his tun si-.lers at Richmond. Since his departure for America he had seldom visited or communicated with his limne. lie was always markedly mincoiumunh ative repardinp his business. \\'he was leaviup home last Wednesday. he was asked by his sister if lie would return to lunch. Ho replied "Yes,” hut lie has not since heen seen by his people. At fhe time of his depart lire, he appeared normal, except for lies extreme I|uictness, hut his manner was always ,|uiet and morose. The unlive discovered that the man r>n Wednesday purelm-ed a rilh- in a I’.oiirke Street shop, for which lo- paid £7 Itls. This rifle wa > a wetip-n "f hiph velocity, the purchaser indieatiup that he wanted it to shoot: hip .panic, tie refused lo take tic hulh-l - o-ually used in such a rith*. wliiels are <>l the dillli duin tvpe. and make a I hie wound. lie i *»•'!. a I nmnomitieu Ot a- n. die, upe. am! I -I --r i. as \o,m:,i, I. - " II ; i ! |> v had ‘hi -.Ml'-- :• I- ee - - ■ •h-u * '• ft home lot ra vei'e: mar ! r1 T>