LAST DENIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 139, 14 June 1932, Page 7

LAST DENIAL.

Rowles Pleads Innocence On The Scaffold. EXECUTION AT PERTH. (Received 10.30 a.m.) PERTH, this day. "Snowy" Rowles was executed', yesterday for the murder of Louis Carron, otherwise known as Leslie Brown. Before he was executed Rowles siingty stated, "I never killed Louis Carron." He made no reference to Ryan and Lloyd, two other 'missing men, who were last-seen in his company. The murdered man Worked in a survey camp in the Rotorua district for about five years. Ho was employed by a firm of I motor-body builders in Auckland subsequently, and he was married here. Later lie opened a confectionery business in Hamilton, but returned to Auckland and proposed to travel to Canada with a man named W. A. Jackson, who was employed with him at Rotorua. Brown, who was said to have been a Canadian by birth, appeared to have changed his name to Carron while he was in Auckland. Failing to obtain a passport to Canada he went to Australia. Jackson, failing to hear from him, communicated with the West Australian police. Inquiries were made, and it was found that he had set out on a swag man's I journey in tho company of Rowies. In May, 1931, human bones and teeth, artificial teeth, a watch, a ring and some foreign coins, of which Brown was known to bo a collector, were found in the ashes of an old fire in the district. A cheque paid to Brown was found to have been cashed by Rowles, who was detected as Smith, an escaped prisoner. The arrest and trial followed. Mrs. Brown, who was traced at Hastings, was an important witness at the trial in Perth, and other witnesses who left New Zealand to identify tho remains of Carron, were Mr. A. T. Long, jeweller, of Auckland, and Mr. A. W. Sims, dentist, of Hamilton.