HARDINGSTONE MYSTERY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21198, 2 December 1930, Page 9

HARDINGSTONE MYSTERY

BODY IN BLAZING CAR. POSSIBLE CLUE TO IDENTITY. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copy right. )- LONDON, November 30. (Received Dec. 1, at 5.5 p.m.) The police are hopeful of clearing up the blazing car murder as the result of the reported disappearance from Brighton :on November 1 of Thomas Waite, an unemployed Welsh miner, whose home is in the Midlands. Mr Bernard Spilbury’s examination indicated that the victim had been a miner, and a piece of unburned cloth had been recovered which exactly corresponded with the clothes Waite is reported to have been wearing. A message received on November 11 stated: So badly burned that at first even his sex was hardly distinguishable, the body of a man was found in the smouldering remains of a baby car near Hardingstone village. The police have arrested the owner of the car, Arthur Alfred Rouse, who protests.his innocence. Sir Bernard Spilsbury (Home Office pathologist) examined the charred remains, and throughout England inquiries are proceeding in an-endeavour to establish the identity of the dead man. The only clue so far is a piece of suit cloth which escaped the fire.