HIKERS’ DISCOVERY
BOGY ON MOUNT CARGILL FOUND IN INACCESSIBLE SPOT , r~ When hiking on Mount Cargill yesterday afternoon, about 4 o’clock, a party' found the decomposed body of a man in the bush. The features of the man were mu cognisable. The body was lying a mild and a-half off the track _ over Mounii Cargill and about four miles from Bethune’s Gully. The discovery was reported too late last evening for d party of constables to be sent out tq bring the body into the morgue, but an early start was made to-day. _ Owing to the difficulties of transportation and the ’inaccessibility of the spot it is not expected that the remains will reach) the morgue till late this afternoon. At present the body .has not, been identified, but the indications were that it was that of an elderly man.
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Evening Star, Issue 22247, 27 January 1936, Page 8
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140HIKERS’ DISCOVERY Evening Star, Issue 22247, 27 January 1936, Page 8
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