TRAGIC DISCOVERY

Hawera Star, Volume L, 31 July 1930, Page 9

TRAGIC DISCOVERY

FINDING OF HOOK’S BODY MAULED BY ANIMAL SEARCHERS' GRUELLING TIME. .'United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 1.45 'n.m. to-day. LONDON July 30. The “Daily Man’s” Rangoon correspondent says that Burmese couriers, •after many forced marches, brought news of the finding ot Hook’s body, which was terribly mauled, either by a tiger or a leopard. Although the body was little more than a skeleton, there was no- dou.bt of its identity. Hook was found naked, and the expedition wrapped the body in ground sheets and took it to Braun© V.r interment. Tire sen-teliers had a- gruelling time, and were generally waist-deep, even chest-deep, in the waters of raging streams. . , „ „ , It is re cat led that Matthews left Hook oil the bank of a mountain river, which rose and washed him away. Hook wa.s undoubtedly then dead. . A curious coincidence is that the body Wais eventually left high and, dry by tlie-receding.-torrent only a furlong from the .spot where Matthews met the villagers.