GRUESOME FIND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 63, 10 February 1930, Page 8

GRUESOME FIND.

BODY IN RIVER. FOUND BY SCHOOLBOY. While wandering along the banks of the Manawatu River yesterday a High School boy, Frank Stack, made a gruesome discovery. The partly decomposed body of a middle-aged man had lodged in a groyne just below the surface of the water. Several other schoolboys arrived on the spot and the police were summoned. The corpse was that of a middleaged man, 46 to 50 years of age. about 5 feet 5 inches in height, with dark hair and natural teeth. He was wearing a dark grev suit, grey woollen socks and black boots about size six. In the pockets of his suit were a soft collar, a mauve tie and a mauve silk handkerchief.

Prominent tattooing should assist the police to identify the body. On the left ring-finger is tattooed a ring. On the right forearm is depicted a Japanese lady with a sunshade, a dancing girl standing in front of a white ensign and the stars and stripes emblem, a large peacock, crossed hands, a jockey’s head with cap, and a group containing a sailing ship in front of a setting sun, with a lighthouse and the inscription “Hands Across the Sea.” On the left forearm is a large palm tree with a snake twisted around it, a woman with flowing hair attired in a long wide dress, a bunch of flowers and another Japanese lady with a sunshade.