DISCOVERY OF A HUMAN SKELTON.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 254, 25 October 1872, Page 2

DISCOVERY OF A HUMAN SKELTON.

ySSSy ,; SX A |-"Gpßb^B , B,__->T<iußST v '7.'', $)f M-' ''"*' ,A A The remwns.bf ainan shaving ,feieen'';|6und^ott. . ;Lt-li_i,Wa : .:•• helsatthe>Bush lany^ ;. 7 Squir^Si "the corbri^ Jx\st__nsß"]^^ .-.*'£ jnT.]^^ - ' night a man named Frewih came to' thi police' 5 S:\ viS.tatioii. 'aD^tb^-'ixie; tbere ;was/a hkeleton l Jy ingjon 7 :X^he^-hillsiie-itear the Wakapuaka ;rbad.>T went-; X stretched out ; at ' "f-Ul-Xlei^ifi^-anlaV^tfie^MK.; ■ on e"t< ? 7M .- 77-jrig_i6<bf 7 body' sind 7bi_f Ttlkof'" rameV leyeli'fXL 7X%n>ugtit^h^ ( .rGeneY-i7watcb,Jao name, numbered 28,679. It had

stopped at 22 minutes to 10. leather watchguard, with puzzle ring and piece of Pawp.u sin 11 attached. A razor closed and wrapped in brown paper, a pocket-knife, match box, ahjjL'penVT knife in the coat pocket. A small 1 pocket -looKf.. ing-glass was in the brenst pocket. 1 here were no papers or money. Two pocket-handkerchiefs. r Underneath the body was a walking-stick. j At this stoge of the inquiry, the jnry proceeded to view the body, which was ljing in. an outbuildiner, and then to examine the spot where it waa found. A"-Wiili-tm Henry Frewin: I am ten years of age. I was walking on the hills near our house a little" after six o'clock last night looking after the cows, and I found a man's body, lying with ; his stomach on the ground I ran home and -told my father, and went back, with him to show him, it. w;as,^ )i_bt>ut eight weeKs "fn^o, ; \ia .the,afternoon, when I was going after the cows, I saw a man lying-in the same place where I lound the body, yesterday. He'was making a- B>r,t of groaning noise "at the time." I was close to Him, and thought he was tipsy,; as he was rolling about and. ; making a noise He had his face" on his arm He did not look up, nor did I speak to him. 1, , told", Thomas Roth well; of it "I had' not seen .him, again until last night. Judging by, the drcjs I should say it was tbe same man. Tr. Scaly: I have examined the rem aiins found' : yesterday. I found on slitting' up the clothes: that there was hardly .any flej-h renaaining. _ The' • thigh bones were .quit.c. bare, r and;. the liip joints, exposed. " The abdomen had en tireTy i fa : lle'n"in, sb; . -as*to r expose thobones" of the spine, and7the chests had falleirin:in tbe A saute wayX .-The light hi-hcl was almost in its normal state, only the ends _ ofthe 7 , fingers 'being gone,; but the flesh .wak quite dried. ThCibones of the. left hand were detached, but to. them were attached. a quantity , of hair, ap-X part*ntly from" the head, as' though' it tod been clutched out in the agonies of death. Thtre was ..no apparent' injury. tb' -the* skull, and the teeth were all sound. ._. None were.n*_is-*ing in the upper j*.w, .and only one in the lower, jaw, which ; might 1 ' have dropped * 7 out*'- after* death. Op-tlie right side ofthe lower jaw there' is a deficiency of bone This may be important for 1 purposes of 'identification. I defected : no injury to the clothing. A body would decompose to that extent in tVo.inonthsif exposed to the,, weather. 1 find no evidence as .to the cause 6£" death. .'; \ „" . -'yy " ;yS \ John Jervis :' I am a 71icensed7 victualler.! ~ly recogn'se the stick,, the watch-chain, 'rijog, and, piece of Pawau slu-11 produced a« having hejongO 1 !'" to a man named~Koii*>lfe De Oimpfr, .1 produce a letter addressrd to him and received* by hqe since ' he was. missing. „He came.tb my7'house on the 4th"' August last, he' 'stayed there" as'"a boarder:, and left on Wednesday, the 4th September, at about hialf-piast nine. He did not go away as ; though he, was leaving. ■ He. owed mea small., sum', and Said on the previous 1 -' Monday that 1 he 7 would settle on . the following, 1 hurray, the day' on which he was to hay.* been married: Enquiries were made about him," but nobody could. tell what had .become bf.hiih. ' His carpet-bag is still at my house. as he left it... , His hair .was dark brown. I have seen the remains, and frdm the clothing and height I, beliuve them td.be those ofthe same man. ' (The letter alluded to was here read. The tenor of it was merely to say that if . the person to whom it was addressed wished to receive ihe money due tb him he should send ;his, account.) 'Jowards the end of his stay with; me" he had sppeaied to' be short of money. , . i The inquest was then.adjourptd. until Monday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. 7 7 ;