MAN FOUND DEAD IN DOMAIN

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23004, 26 April 1940, Page 9

MAN FOUND DEAD IN DOMAIN

IDENTIFICATION EVIDENCE FROM QUEENSLAND

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AUCKLAND, April 24. With the help of photographs which were sent to Australia the police have established the identity of a man whose body was found in the Auckland Domain on December 5. He was Thomas Kemp, a single man, aged 60, formerly of Toowomba, Queensland, who came to New Zealand in January, When the body was found there was a bullet wound in the head and an automatic pistol was clasped in a hand. There were no papers to establish identity, but the clothes were carefully preserved and a police photographer took full face and profile photographs, which were distributed throughout New Zealand without result. Particulars of a missing man were contained in an official publication last month. As a result the photographs of the body were sent to the police in Queensland, and recently replies confirming the man’s identity were received in Auckland from his brother and Constable Hendry, of Yangan station. Toowomba. The brother’s letter mentioned that the dead man bought a suit of clothes from a firm in Sydney before he left for New Zealand, Tabs found on the clothing bore the name of the firm of men’s outfitters referred to in the letter. Before the inquiries were completed the case was handled by more than 40 members of the Police Force in New Zealand and Australia. Arrangements are now being made for the inquest to be concluded.