UNKNOWN DEAD
POLICE INVESTIGATIONS
(Per Press Association-— Copyright)
DUNEDIN, April 0
Following up a clue of a hatteied silver watch, found in the debris of the fire at Henley on March 6, the police believe they have established the identity of at least one of the two unknown men who were burned to death with James Reid. This watch ha s been identified by a Dunedin jeweller a s ( >ne that he repaired, the property of Jethro Hobbs, an elderly man who worked at various farms on Taieri during harvest-
Mhe police now seek information of the whereabouts of Joseph Higgins, 69, a pensioner, believed to have been seen with Hobbs some days Indore the tragedy.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19370409.2.35
Bibliographic details
Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1937, Page 5
Word Count
116UNKNOWN DEAD Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1937, Page 5
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in