GRIM CRIME DISCOVERED
BURNING BODY FOUND PROBLEM FOR POLICE. MELBOURNE, May 15. Detectives were confronted by a difficult task in elucidating the circumstances leading to the death of an unknown young man, whose charred and unrecognisable body was discovered hidden in a wooden culvert at Balwyn, ,an outer suburb, by some schoolboys yesterday. The boys’ attention was attracted to the scene by the culvert smouldering, when they noticed a human leg and remnants of burnt clothing. Medical examination revealed a severe fracture of the victim’s head, but the features were unrecognisable. The ’police are of opinion that the body was placed in the culvert some hours before, and the clothing set alight. It was decided to amputate the undamaged right hand, obtain the fingerprints, and ascertain whether the victim was ever convicted, and thereby establish identification, as was done in the Wagga case, resulting in the solution of Percy Smith’s identity and the death sentence on Morey last week, which is regarded as one of the outstanding feats in crime detection.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18398, 16 May 1934, Page 5
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