SEARCH FOR CLUES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 128, 2 June 1939, Page 9

SEARCH FOR CLUES.

HUMAN FOOT PUZZLE.

DOMINION-WIDE INQUIRIES.

NO ONE REPORTED MISSING,

(Hy TVlojrraph—Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day. TViniininii.wirlt. have been iii-titiifofl by Hip x,-,,,j rr detective office i" an pfTnrt to Innate duo which might lead to n solution ~f the mystery nf t ho d'-covery on Hip bench at West-i»h'n-p. Napier, on Wednesday of a liniiiiii fii.il. <-l.nl in a -hoe and f • ni'-t iil>lo*d of tiii! Port Aliurlri police ■tiitiun carried nut ii,i <>xt ci)!»i \ u poiircli "f tin , beaches in tlic vicinity vaster<l»y, I"K ii" fui-tliiT <li-cospri,. s !,-,,[ i, P( >,i '•"ported up to ,i bitf hour in-t night. 'I'll* , linili was apparently wrenched fi'"in 'I"- riMtiainil<M- nf tin- leg. iniil it '- alnim-f i-iTtiiin that no t-urgieal or otlicv iii-lrumcut was u~ed in tin , f-eversilico. It ir, p,).-.-il.|c ilint the font was turn n|nii-t by a i-hurk. lmt there is mi evidence as yet to Mijmort thithenrv.

Following ati extensive medical exiiiiiinatiiiii by Dr. <;. K. Wnterwiirth, of Napier, certain deductions have I won drawn fioin the tnd shape of the .-hoc. Thi- U a lihu-k of a -i/i' l - !i iijLii liclwccii S and !>. Tt is lwlie\e<l tliHt the owner was n middle,ixc<\ man, approximately .Ift loin in livi^'ht.

The police are anxious that ]illblicity be L'iven to the ft range discovery in the Imi|ic that nil , !! , per-oii may come forward vvitli information which may a<—i-t the detectives iu their investigations. A jiiirt ieulai 1 v pilz/ling feature i" that no have been reported ini-— inl; from the lliiwkc"* Hay area iu recent week-, while no serious accident care- involving i ik> hn-- of a foot have occurred iu the province.