TEETH IN HEDGE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19700, 4 August 1938, Page 8

TEETH IN HEDGE

MISSING HINDU MYSTERY SENSATIONAL TURN / POLICE VISIT DENTISTS FIND AT TAII AEG A (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The discovery in a hedge at Taharoa of a complete set of false teeth and a complete upper denture about 10 days -ago is a sensational turn in the niysterv of the missing Hindu, Delu Desai, who disappeared on the night of May 7 from the store where he was assisting another countryman at Taharoa. The teeth were found by members of the police party who have been searching daily since May 18, about the time when it was first suspected that the Hindu had been the victim of foul play. No trace of the body so far has been found despite the dragging _of an eel-infested lake and a wide search of the sand dunes. Last week a member of the large force of police in camp at Taharoa came to Auckland, bringing three dentures. Many dentists in the city were interviewed, and on Monday, after an exhaustive round of dental rooms, a deiective approached Mr. C. Munro Emanuel, a dentist in Queen Street. Identity of Teeth Mr. Emanuel at first said that he believed the teeth were those of the missing Hindu, but when the police made a second call yesterday, he told them that positive identification was not possible, as about three months ago in a periodic clean up of old files he had throw out records. “However, I know that in 1932 I made a set of false teeth for a Hindu named Delu Desai,” said Mr. Emanuel to a reporter to-day. He added that the numbers stamped on the teeth were similar to those used in his system. Without his records it was impossible positively to identify the teeth. It is understood that the police ascertained that the account for the teeth was sent in 1932 to an address which tallies with that of the missing Hindu.