MURDER SUSPECTED
A MISSING .MOTOR IST. (Australian Press Association) MF.LPOUItXK. .Jan. 31. Tin* police are inquiring into the Williams’ car my.stery. They have detained the swagiuan (cabled yesterday) at Marlon, in northern Victoria. The swagman was traced for two hundred miles. He has now been charged with vagrancy. His original story to a Donnybrook hotelkeeper was repeated at Coburg. suburb. where lie told the police that lie was attacked by the driver of tiie ear. who gave him a lilt. Tie ■ said he was robbed, and was then thrown on the roadside. I here was a wound over Ids lelt eye. His ] singlet was bloodstained. ; The police are now questioning him in the Melbourne lock-up. There is no trace of Williams. The police are dragging rivers and waterholes for Williams. SYDNKY. Fell. 1. A swagmau detained is named iscoe, of New Zealand.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 February 1929, Page 1
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