SKELETON IDENTIFIED
CO-OPERATION BY EXPERTS (0.C.) SYDNEY, September 15. Scienitfic comparison of a waistcoat with remains of a suit found on a skeleton enabled a Queensland police expert to establish that a man who disappeared two and a half years ago was Harold Taylor Gargett, watchmaker, of Nundah. The skeleton was found this week by a girl temporarily lost in the bush while gathering mushrooms at Redcliffe, about 28 miles from Brisbane. Tests proved the material in the remains of the suit on the skeleton to be the same as that of a waistcoat in the possession of Gargett's wife. The Director of the State Health Laboratory (Dr. E. H. Derrick), after placing the bones of the skelet'on in position estimated the height and age of the man. His estimate corresponds closely to the height and ace of Gargett. An X-ray photo of Gargett's jawbone, taken by a dentist a few weeks before he disappeared, also assisted in establishing identification. Gargett, who had been in ill-health left his home about 11 a.m. on February 22, 1941, saying that he was going for a walk. He was not seen alive again.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 226, 23 September 1943, Page 4
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