REMAINS IDENTIFIED
Found in Ashes of Fire dogged police inquiry Sydney, December 29. On November 19 a sheep farmer in Lake Ranges, near Bungendore, 40 miles from Goulburn, found the remains of a large fire. An examination of the ashes disclosed bones, apparently those of a human being, a gun barrel partly melted, a watch, and a small key. Intensive inquiries were made by the police, extending to London, w J Ie J- e Scotland Yard traced the makers of the key and its Australian destination. Research by local scientists, also, resulted in the establishment of the identity of the dead man as Sydney James Morrison, aged 21, a resident of Bondi. Inquiries jjre proceding in an effort to discover how he met his death.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 81, 30 December 1931, Page 9
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125REMAINS IDENTIFIED Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 81, 30 December 1931, Page 9
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