MELBOURNE TRAGEDY

Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1924, Page 3

MELBOURNE TRAGEDY

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION BODY IDENTIFIED AS LIST’S. MELBOURNE. February I. List’s i-i Mei has identified the body as that of her biotber. It i- ; believed that be was making for bis uncle’s l’n i m at Uakenham when be tripped and broke bis neck.

LIST SUICIDED. I DENTI EICATION MARKS MELBOURNE, F-k 2. 1.1 -: ’s sister was in a state of eellaps,' when identifying her brother tit the morgue. The chief marks ot identification were talloo mark:; on tho arm. Tin- police have no doubts as the body agrees in every particular with the wanted man. The body was coat less and vest less. Life has been extinct two or three days. .MELBOURNE. Fob. ■’!.

The post- mortem indicates that List committed suicide, the arteries of both liis right and left arms, between the wrist and elbow, having been severed. His neck was not broken, as supposed, the bruises, thereon being due to decomposition am! the work ol insects, during the four or five days that the Lndy lav partly in water. The portion covered by water was the better preserved. lUs pocket s cont ained only a few coppers.

List's bndv was found 1 I miles from Af.elhnume. at Pakeuham, at the bottom ol a deep gully.

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