A GRISLY FIND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24415, 28 September 1940, Page 8

A GRISLY FIND

DEAD MAN ON CLIFF FACE END TO LONG HUNT (From Our Own Correspondent) SYDNEY, Sept. 12. A police hunt over mountainous country in Central Australia for an Italian alleged to have wounded a miner on August 29, ended when he was found hanging dead from a projection on a cliff face. This was revealed when Sergeant A. E. Koop returned to Alice Springs, following a search 100 miles to the northeast for Apostollo Gasparollo, a mica miner, who was alleged to have wounded Innocent Vendramini with a razor. After taking Vendramini toi hospital, Sergeant Koop set out with a constable and two aboriginal trackers to find Gasparollo, who was believed to : be mentally deranged. The fugitive cunningly avoided all’ tracks and animal pads, but at intervals the trackers found signs of his passage. On September 5 Gasparollo was found dead, held upright against a cliff face by a rock splinter, which had caught his cardigan. A belt hang-' ing from an adjacent tree indicated; that Gasparollo had hanged himself by jumping from the cliff, but the belt slipped off some time after death, which was estimated to have occurred a week previously". There was £IOO in his pockets.