GRUESOME DISCOVERY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1923, Page 7

GRUESOME DISCOVERY

BODY OF KISSING MAN.

(UNITED PKESS ASSOCIATION.— COPIP.IGHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN - iiEW 77ALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.* LONDON, 13th September. _A curious link in the care of Ernest Dyer, the ex-airman, has been reveal; fed by a gruesome discovery at Dyer's former training establishment, at Kenhey, in Surrey, where detectives due the body of Eric Toombs from a cesspool which had^been filled with 10 feet of rubbish and concrete.

Toombs. was a young ex-officer, and the son of a Sydenham clergyman. He was Dyer's partner, and visited Kenley frequently from London. He liad been missing nearly two years. There are indications that the body had been W in the pool, but it was identified by the father and also by a man formerly employed at the establishment. Toombs's head was severely battered, and wrapped ' rOS"j V, *"* own overcoat. It is recalled that men were employed Blime two cesspools with concrete, biib thl third cesspool, in which the body was found, was filled by Dyer himself * m w,estl nin6ter Gazette" states that Toombs's disappearance was not reported to the police till a 1 month ago, when the' father, from inquiries in the neighboiirhood, became convinced hie •on s body would be found thereabouts.