Inquiries Into Dead Man’s Identity

Press, Volume C, Issue 29712, 4 January 1962, Page 10

Inquiries Into Dead Man’s Identity

(New Zealand Press Association)

NAPIER, Jan. 3

Detectives inquiring into the identity of a young man whose body was found at 5.15 yesterday morning at the foot of the 250-feet-high Bluff hill in Napier, are anxious to get in touch with the friends or relatives of a Mr B. R. Wilson whose address is unknown. Mr Wilson was in the Napier district during the Christmas-New Year holiday period and stayed during Christmas at the Victoria Hotel in Hastings street.

He booked into the hotel without luggage, saying he had missed the bus to Waipawa or Waipukurau. He left the hotel some time later, saying he would be back at New Year. He did not return.

Mr G. Diack, proprietor of the Victoria Hotel, said today a man named Mr B. R. Wilson booked into his hotel on the night of December 26 and left on the morning of December 27. He said he would be back at New Year. On the morning of December 27, when in the bar, the man was wearing a green shirt covered with small white dots.

The Napier police today said the only articles in the clothing on the body which would help identification were a 5s double T.A.B. tilket purchased at the Napier T.A.B. on the morning of Saturday, December 30, and a pouch.

The T.A.B. assistant who sold the ticket viewed the body at the hospital mortuary yesterday but was unable to identify the man. The pouch found in the clothing contained a comb which bore the advertisement of a dry-cleaning establishment at Frankton Junction. Inquiries at Frankton showed that several dozen of these combs had been given away, and the proprietor could not help with the identification.