MAN FOUND DEAD

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 203, 25 August 1908, Page 5

MAN FOUND DEAD

FIVE MONTHS MISSING. The hopes of finding among the living the missing clerk, James Bl&key Hendry, were' destroyed yesterday; afternoon when, the dead and decomposed body of the man was found between a stone wall and a fowi-hooae at the deceased's father-in-law's residence in AfcboitVroad, Mt. Eden, -where, deceased and his wife had ■ lited. The last that was seen of Hendry was by his wife on May 5, when he was leaving home at 10 in the morning. For a considerable time the police searched the country for him. Mr. W. A. Grayson yesterday afternoon, took a pot shot with a stone at a fleeting rat, and then ran to the wall to see if he had hit it, when he discovered the remains of the long-lost man. Dr. Ingiis has given it as his opinion that Hendry has been dead two months or more. It is surmised that Hendry was going home, and in endeavouring to get over the wall pitched headlong, and either, broke his neck or died of suffocation. Mr. T. Greshani, coroner, opened an inquest at Gleeson's Hotel this afternoon. Sergt. Bamsay represented the police.