Discovery of Human Remains.
A Murder Perhaps.
About ■Wednesday list one Donnelly, an employeo of the County Council, wa§ working with Qther men at the Hape Creek repairing the road. While engaged ■hovelling stuff from a tip head in the Adlam claim Donnelly nnearthed a human skull at a depth of about 3 feet from the surface. Subsequently other human remains were found about the same place, but the discovery does not appear to have interested them much, aa the police did not receive the information of the circustances till Saturday night. It appears that the bones were removed by the men, and the police were this afternoon engaged in recovering them and making' enquiries. The bones appear to have been 8 or 9 yean buried, and the finder of the scull pro* : fesses to have discovered a dent in it. At
the time of writing the police hare not yet returned with the bones, bat the/ are expected to he brought to the police station this afternoon.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3372, 13 October 1879, Page 2
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168Discovery of Human Remains. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3372, 13 October 1879, Page 2
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