THE GLENBROOK MYSTERY.

Hastings Standard, Issue 190, 7 December 1896, Page 3

THE GLENBROOK MYSTERY.

Fi"RTI i i;r i»i; v 1: LOPM ENT>. GREAT EXCITEMENT IN SYDNEY. CAPTAIN WELLER'S UUI»V DISCOVERED. A THIRD MAN MISSING. (IV< IV~ Svi-Nr v. Dee. ■">. The excitement over the J.lenbrook mystery has reached fever heat nwi to the discovery of another body. that of Weller. Hundreds joined in the search today, and during the forenoon two residents of Glenbrook, searching in a gully a inile west of the town, came' across ground recently disturbed with twigs and atones piled on top under a ledge of rock similar in many respects to the condition of Preston's grave. The party also found a pick with which the grave hj, d evidently been dog, and a magazine bearing Weller's name was discovered near by. On the arrival of the police .snftici?nt earth was removed to disclose the remains of a hitman body in an advanced stage of decomposition. One side of the face, however, wain a sufficient state of preservation to make the identification of Weller absolute. The victim had his knees drawn up under the chin and the body had apparently been jammed into the hole. How he came by his death will not be known until the /«»»' »><>>■(>■»> examination has been held to-morrow. One side of the face bears the appearance of having been crushed in. A third man named L. -ah is missing. He went to Oermantown, in the Albury district, and search is now to be instituted there. . The Extradition Court will meet to-morrow to draw up the necessary papers with respect to the arrest of Bntler, and Detective Roach will immediately after the sitting proceed to London to interview the authorities of the Foreign Office and have the documents put in proper order for the extradition of the murderer if arrested. Constable Cotiroy, who had nearly decided to accompany l.utkron one of his prospecting tours, leaves by the Miowera <« r»nt? to San i'raucisco iu order to arrest accused.