THE MELBOURNE TRAGEDY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2691, 5 February 1924, Page 3

THE MELBOURNE TRAGEDY.

LIST’S BODY FOUND,

SUICIDE APPARENT.

Melbourne, February 2.

List’s sister identified a body that has been found as her brother’s. It is believed that he was making for his uncle’s farm at Paken hom when he tripped and broke Ills neck. List’s sister was in a state of collapse when identifying her brother’s body at the morgue. The chief marks of identification were tattoo marks on the arm. The police entertain no doubts as the body agrees in every particular with the description of the wanted man. The body was coatless and vestless. Life bad been extinct for two or three days. Alolbourne, February 3.

A post-mortem indicates that List committed suicide, the arteries of both right; and left arms between the wrist and elbow, having been severed. The neck was not broken, as was supposed, the bruises thereon being due to decomposition, and the work of insects during the four or five days the bodylay partly in water. The portion covered by water was the better preserved. His pockets contained I‘illy a few coppers,.