DONNYBROOK MYSTERY
POLICE DETAIN SWAGGER STORY pT AN ASSAULT MELBOURNE; Jan. 31. The police, inquiring into the mysterious disappearance of the -engineer, Leslie Williams, whose bloodstained clothes were found in a car at Donnyhrook during the week-end, have detained at Murtoa, northern Victoria, a swagmrin named Yiscoe, who 'comes from New Zealand. The swagman was traced 200 miles. He is now charged with vagrancy. His original story to a Donnybrook. hbtejkeeper was repeated at a Coburg suburb, where he told the police that he was attacked by the driver of a car, who gave him a lift. He was robbed arid then, thrown on the roadside. There was a wound over his left eye and his singlet was bloodstained. The police are now questioning him in the Melbourne lockup. " There is no trace of Williams; The police are dragging the rivers apd the waterholes.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16866, 1 February 1929, Page 7
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