MYSTERY MURDER

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 125, 19 January 1932, Page 5

MYSTERY MURDER

(Press. Assn.-

westralian case hamilton dentist called to give evidence at trial TRAGEDY IN THE BUSH

-By Telegraph — Copyright).

HAMILTON, Monday. Efforts by the police of Western Australia to establish a case of murdef h'aVe resulted in a Hamilton dentfst being subpoenaed to . give evidence at the 'forthcoming trial. He will leave for P'erth "ori Thursday. •' ! About" 15 montbs after a man's charfed remains were discovered 6h a sheep ruri at Mt. Magnu's, 130 miles frorii Rerth, the identity of the deceased person was e'stablished. He Was Leslie" Brovm, a married man, well knoWn In Hamilton, Who left for Australia in' Jatxukry, 1930. • Aldngsid"ey the' ashes were a gun, a' watch and a dehture, and various other perSonal belongings. • Fdr several months the Western Austra|i'an police made efforts to discbver the man's identity without aVail.'Tt Was' the non-arrival of a letter which set'fresh iriqUiries afoot. When BroWn left New Zealand, he promised to write to a friend now living in buckland." Every month for some months "lett'ers" were received regularly. Then there Was a sridden cessation and several letters were returned. ' i" Anxious for Browri's welfare, the frierid fcoihmuniOated with the police .iri Westerri "Australia; asking if they ^ knew his whereabouts. Information in the hands of the police there brought Orit the fact that a man corresponding to the ' description of Brown was missing. Also in possession of the police Were articles found in the charred remains many months before. Some of these articles, which wero riings and photographs; were forWarded to" Brown's friend and fbrmer associates at Hamilton and Auckland, arid definitely established the fact that the charred remains were those of Leslie Brown. ' A Hamilton dentist made a denture for Brown, and evidence verifyirig that the denture found with the' inciner'ated corpse at Mt. Magnus is similar to the one he made will be the final link in the case for the police so far as Brown's identification is concerned. '•