Finding a Skeleton.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 21 July 1891, Page 2

Finding a Skeleton.

■ ,1 ...,!,■ ».,t; ,■:■;■■;.!. , SUSPICIOUS SUBSp,U#D|NGSy i On, Saturday Mr Green^ re^orifed at Bulls that on- Ms' l^na, ( ''iaar Cainpbe.iitown, he and his' ' 'pjtr^Br . Roberts had found a sk&eton.';/.Cqnsfcable Gillespie, of ; th'ii? t6wn, jtfeht out to make inquiries,' and foun^that i the skeleton was lying buried by. 'the side of a small flax bush. ' The stfull i was lying exposed but, the, rioter . linibs were buried in , the , soil: The matter -has been .reported to the Coroner, and an inquest will be ImIB, shortly.. Nothing partjicular (ian^'now i be asserted, but' as there were, some i twelve or fourteen years ig'd^a' niiin- , ber of ' irien employed ' on the 'Oroua ■ Downs estate ia draining the. large swamp on the' b'anki, of, th'e'Oroua i river, a portion of whibh swamp, ; the farm f where the 1 skeleton has'teen , discovered, forms a part, and that the site of some . camps' are adjacent i to the grave, causes the discoyerft^o ■ assume a rather suspicious. aspect, i We know of: no one haying rheeßa re- , ported missing at that- tim§, /but as , the district was then sparsely settled, ! and numbers of- men '.'were moving - about to public works, a man, mor.e i or less, would not be noticed, and if 1 missed would only have.-be^n assumed i to have'" moved pn,^ ,It j«obable I that a portion of M |^e;fl^ifeton has I been exposed owing fo-^the subsii of i the t swamp, >fhiq^ is|-,very •: great after draijiing. " \j