BUSH TRAGEDY

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 March 1934, Page 12

BUSH TRAGEDY

CLAIRVOYANT’S ALLEGED PART.

SYDNEY, March G.

A Lithgow woman who is said to have clairvoyant powers, is said to have contributed to the discovery in the bush near Cullen Bullen yesterday of the body of Laurence Charles Bowler, a Sydney artist. The woman was interviewed by a number of people interested in the search, and travelled to Cullen Bullen on Sunday. When she reached a spot on the road near where the remains were eventually discovered she. expressed the opinion that the body would be found nearby. Finally she drew a plan and fixed the location under a tree, declaring that the body would be on its back with a rifle over an arm. It was then too dark to test her theory, but a party followed the direction indicated by her and was approaching the tree when Mrs Seymour and her daughter made the discovery.

Mr E. T. Bowler, of Dulwich Hill, father of the dead man, declared that the clairvoyant’s insight was remarkable, and had materially assisted in locating the hody. Her forecast regarding the position of the body and rifle was correct in every detail. The inquest was conducted at Portland today, when the Coroner (Mr P. Tidex) returned a verdict that death was due to a. wound in the head, apparently self-inflicted while Bowler was temporarily deranged through being lost in the bush since February 21.