LATER PARTICULARS. DISCOVERY OF THE BODY. ITS LOCATION INDICATED BY A NOTE. Dunedin, June 4.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 375, 8 June 1889, Page 3

LATER PARTICULARS. DISCOVERY OF THE BODY. ITS LOCATION INDICATED BY A NOTE. Dunedin, June 4.

A "Times " sp&cial pays inquiiics on fcho spot elicited thab Bradford and Waddel were not on good terms for some time. Waddel resided >n the locality for twolve months, having come from Balclutha. It is six months since Bradford joined Waddei in working the claim at Coghill's Hill. Tho claim was not o c much account apparently, and they were anything but contented partners. They had not water rights, and Bradford came to the Warden at Laurence and made the application for a dam and water race iv his own name, nob mentioning his mate) and viitually becoming the proprietor of the claim, This is what is freely stated. Afterwards tho relationship between the ptutneis became lees agreeable, bub no throats of violence were mado use of.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES. What is reorfiidod as suspicious is that Waridel never repotted his mate missing, or took any part in the search beyond helping to remove a fall of oai'bh at the claim under which it vms thought possible Bradfold's body might be found. .Another singular circumstance is of a mysterious character. Tho body was found at night by a search paity directed to tho very spot whore the body was found. This accounts for its being discovered at nearly midnight. At 8 o'clock on Sunday nighb a note was found tied bo Constable West's gate saying that Bradford's body would bo found in the gully a little above the dam at the claim. Tho constable got somo men in the district to go with him, and they found fche body in the spot indicated. It was hidden by the "growth of ferns, and not by anything placed over it to concoal it, but still it was so situated and shielded from view that a close search was necessary to discover it. Nothing ■ is known as to the writer of the note, and tho most probate conjecture regarding it is that it may have been written by someone who accidentally found the body, and did not want to be troubled about giving evidence. It is said that the body had the appearance of having been in bhe wafer and there were siens that death resulted from asphyxia. Tho bruise on bhe face is extensive, and that on the thigh is the lesult ot a considerable degreo of violence, but these would be insufficient to account for death. Whether the bruises are such as would bo caused by a fall will depend largely upon bhe naturo of the lpcaliby where tho body was found. lam infoimed by those who know the place that this is impiobabe, and if so the inference that Bradford was murdered is almost inevitable.