DENTURE AS GLUE

Evening Star, Issue 21004, 19 January 1932, Page 7

DENTURE AS GLUE

EVIDENCE IN AUSTRALIAN MURDER CASE HAMILTON DENTIST SUBPfIEN/ED [Per United Press Association.] HAMILTON, January 18. Efforts by tho police of Western Australia to establish a case of murder have resulted in a Hamilton dentist being subpoenced to give evidence in a forthcoming trial, and he will leave for Perth on Thursday. About fifteen months after a man’s charred remains were discovered on a sheep run at Mount Magnet, 130 miles from Perth, the identity of the deceased person was established. He was Leslie Brown, a married man, wellknown in Hamilton, who left for Australia in January, 1930. Alongside the ashes were a gun, a watch, a denture, and various other personal belongings. For months the Western Australian police have endeavoured to discover the man’s identity without avail. It was the non-arrival of a letter which set fresh inquiries afoot. When Brown left New Zealand he promised to write to a friend now living in Auckland. Every month for some months letters were received regularly; then there was a sudden cessation, and several letters were returned. Anxious for Brown’s welfare, the friend communicated with the police in Western Australia, asking if they knew his whereabouts. The information in the hands of the police there brought out the fact that a man corresponding to the description of Brown was missing. Also in possession of the police were articles found among the charred remains many months before. Some of these articles—watches, rings, and photographs—were forwarded to friends and former associates in Hamilton and Auckland, and the police have been able definitely to establish the fact that tli© charred remains ape those of Leslie Brown. The local dentist enters the story through having made a denture for Brown, and evidence testifying that the denture found with the incinerated corpse at Mount Magnet is similar to the one he made will he the final link in the case for the police, so far as Brown’s identification is concerned.