Found Shot Dead

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 30, 5 February 1937, Page 7

Found Shot Dead

AUSTRALIAN IN ENGLAND EXPLANATORY THEORIES LONDON, Feb. 3. A man who was found shot dead ip a creek off Chichester Harbour, a mile from his abandoned motor-car, is etateh by the Daily Mail to be Bernard Arthur Alg&r Kami 11, aged 40, a retired commissioned officer of the Auati-iliau Navy, who came to England from Australia in July, leaving his wife and two children behind. The car was first noticed by a woman, who saw lying in it a snapshot of n woman and three children. She recognised the woman as Miss Catliff, who stayed iu the district during the summer with her brother’s children. Shu remembered also seeing the car, and knew it belonged to Hamill, who was the children’s uncle. The police faced the problem of H&mill driving 250 miles from Liver pool, where he had been living, leaving the car, and disappearing, but after u long search the body was found. it is learned that Mias Catliff became engaged, whereupon Hamill sent her a congratulatory telegram. The Daily Mail suggests that loneliness because his wife and children were absent, unhappiness over a friendship which he feared he had lost, and worry over a business into which he had put his life savings may be among the causes of the tragedy. A Liverpool friend of Hamill says it was a hard blow to him to leave his wife and children behind, but he wished his children to continue their education. He was proud cf them and carried their phonographs in his pocket.