Identity Sought
The police have not been able to identify a man found dead in Linwood about 7.30 a.m. yesterday. On Tuesday night a Unwood resident stopped his car in Cathedral square and gave the man a ride. However, he was unable to find where the man lived because of his condition. He drove the man to his own home and left him to sleep in his car. Yesterday morning the Unwood man found his passenger dead in his car. The dead man is described as being between sft Bin and sft 9in in height, well built, aged between 40 and 50, with thick brown hair and tattoos on both arms.
On the inner left arm he had a tattoo of the head and shoulders of a girl wearing a tam o’shanter and with a scarf across her shoulders. The tattoo on the outer left arm was a bird,, beneath it a heart with illegible writing in it
On the inner right arm the tattoo was a figure standing next to a tombstone in 'the shape of a cross. On the outer right arm there was the tattooed figure of a serpent coiled around a sword.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31450, 17 August 1967, Page 14
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196Identity Sought Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31450, 17 August 1967, Page 14
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