POLICE BAFFLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 252, 23 October 1936, Page 3

POLICE BAFFLED.

body ON ROADSIDE.

fatality unexplained.

tfO SIGN OF VIOLENCE.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

WIIAK AT AN E, this day

Incisive police inquiries have so fer failed to reveal the cause of death of Jlr. Augustus Moore, who was found on the roadside near the Poroporo railway on Monday evening. A search is being made for cars which passed that way on that evening, but nothing substantial ],as resulted.

The inquest has not been concluded, but it is understood that the result ot the post-mortem shows that internal artaries were severed, causing practicably instantaneous death. There was no olitward sign of violence, either on the body or the clothing. One theory is that the dead man was caught on the right hand hv a passing car and struck by the buffer. Another is that the body might have been placed on the road at this particular spot and the accident might have occurred somewhere else.

A circumstance causing some speculation is the fact that, with the severance of the internal arteries, there was no sjVn of blood near the spot where the bodv was found. . There may be a reasonable explanation of the fatality, but so far no one has volunteered any information. The police admit that up to the present they are baffled.