DEATH IN THE BUSH.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9058, 18 February 1908, Page 5

DEATH IN THE BUSH.

DISCOVERY OF HUMAN REMAINS.

SUSPECTED SUICIDE,

While exploring Solway Bush, near the Kuripuni railway station, about three hundred yards from Short Street, a man named James Collett made the sensational discovery of the remanis of a human body fully dressed lying on the ground. The police were informed of the fact early vesterday morning, and immediately Constables Doyle and Dogett m-oceeded to the locality and ".ery soon came across the remains, which we a greatly decomposed. With much difficulty the unpleasant task of lifting the skeleton for it could scarcely be called anything elsewas accomplished, and it was placed in a break and taken to the morgue. It was impossible to identify the body, but it has been ascertained by the police that the clothes are those of worn by a man named Edwadr Ryalls, who, it will be remembered, disappeared mysteriously towards the end of last October. In the deceased's pockets were found a purse containing 4s 6d in cash, a watch and a match-box containing matches, but no written matter of any description. Ryalls had a brother in the Nelson Post office, whom he wrote to in October. The contents of the letter were such that the brother's suspicions were aroused, and he deemed it advisable that investigations should be made. He accordingly telegraphed to the local police, and it was then ascetained that the missing man had left Mrs Reeves' board-ing-house in Lincoln Road, where he had lodged on Saturday, October 26th, or two days before the letter had been received in Nelson. A search was then made for the missing man, but no trace of him was found until the remains, which are believed to be his, were discovered. At the time of Ryall's disappearance, the police discovered that a man answering his desciption had purchased a quantity of chlarodyne from a Io:al chemist, and when the body was found, a small tumbler was noticed on the ground not far from it.' .

, Ryalls was 23 years of age. He was a native of England, and only arrived in New Zealand from Canada a short, time before his disappearance.

An inquest will be held this afternoon.