BODY IN HARBOUR
SYDNEY DISCOVERY MAY BE THAT OF WANTED MAN SYDNEY, June 29. Police today recovered from the harbour the body of a man whose description and clothes agree in all essential details with those of the man wanted for the wardrobe murder. The body, according to medical opinion, had been in the water between a week and a fortnight. There is a large scar across the throat and another scar on the knee, corresponding exactly with the police description. The clothes have already been definitely identified by a friend of the dead man who gave them to him. Keys found in a pocket fitted the door of the residential and the wardrobe in which the woman's body was found. Another fitted a suitcase discovered in the room. An attempt will bo made to obtain the man's finger-prints. This will probably be difficult, owing to the fact that decomposition is far advanced. The murderer's finger-prints were found on several articles, including a bottle which it is believed he used on the woman's head prior to the strangulation. Police are not yet disclosing the wanted man's name, but declare that he has previous convictions in New Zealand and South Australia.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 153, 30 June 1936, Page 9
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200BODY IN HARBOUR Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 153, 30 June 1936, Page 9
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