Tne Hawera Mystery.
Detective Benjamin returned from Hawera to Wanganui yesterday, after a week spent m that district m oonnec*. tion with the allegedchild murder case. He has had some protty hard work daring his visit, damming creeks and ether operations haviag all come m his line of work. It is said that m the vicinity of the spot where the clothes of tbe .child were found a herd of wild' pigs commit their depredations, ad that, if, as the theory goes, she left thebody there, probably it would fall to them. Another reason assigned is that m the lake near where the clothes were found? there are a number of immense eels, wuioh, if the body were thrown 1 inlfcb the water, would fipeedily consume it,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 241, 13 September 1883, Page 2
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127Tne Hawera Mystery. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 241, 13 September 1883, Page 2
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