VICTORIAN MYSTERY

Evening Star, Issue 20089, 1 February 1929, Page 6

VICTORIAN MYSTERY

THE DESERTED MOTOR OAR , A SWAGMAN DETAINED. Presi Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, January 31. The police arc inquiring into the car mystery, and have detained a swagmau at Murtoa, Northern Victoria. The swagman was traced 200 miles, and he is non - charged with vagrancy. His - original story to a Donnybrook hotelkeeper was repeated at a Coburg suburb, where he told the police that lie was attacked by the driver of a car who gave him a lift. He was robbed and then thrown on the roadside. There is a wound over his left eye, and his singlet is bloodstained. The police ;.rc now questioning him in the Melbourne lock-up. There is no trace of Williams, and the police are dragging rivers and water holes. SWAGMAN A NEW ZEALANDER. Preaa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, January 31. The man who has been detained is named Viscoe, and he comes fcom New Zealand. [Deep mystery is associated with the discovery of a deserted car near Donnybrook, twenty miles from Melbourne, on the Sydney road, 'the car belonged to Leslie Williams, an electrical engineer, ot Won 1 bourn, New South Wales, who has disappeared, but bloodstained clothing, including trousers and underpants, boots ami socks, and food scraps and half a bottle of wine, were found in the car, which a fortnight before had been stolen and was discovered at' Eawkner, outside Melbourne, Williams went down to Melbourne to retrieve his car, and was ipparently on his way back when he was either, the victim of foul play or iommitted sin tide. He is a sou of a stipendiary magistrate in Sydney.]