MURDER CASE

Southland Times, Issue 21661, 24 March 1932, Page 7

MURDER CASE

IDENTITY QUESTION SINGULAR INCIDENT AT PERTH MEN OF SAME NAME (United* Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 7.45 p.m.) Perth, March 23. The police are satisfied that L. J. Carron who worked on Wandarrie Station in July, 1930, is not the same Louis J. Carton for whose murder about May 18, 1930, “Snowy” Rowles was last Saturday sentenced to death. While the Crown was seeking to' prove that Louis J. Carron was murdered by Rowles came the story that Mr Murray, manager of Wandarrie Station, would swear he gave employment to L. J. Carron in July, 1930, and that Carron' then returned to Perth. When first making inquiries for Carron Constable Hearn interviewed Mr Murray, who asked the missing man’s nationality. Constable Hearn said Carron was a New Zealander, upon which Mr Murray decided he could not have been the man he employed because that man was a Canadian by birth.

live inquiry into the sensational mystery of the Murchison district concerning the disappearance of Leslie John Brown, better known there as Louis J. Carron, portion of whose charred remains and personal belongings were found in the ashes of a camp fire, was opened at Perth on January 18. James Thonias Smith, aged 26, alias “Snowy” Rowles, was charged with having wilfully murdered Brown near 183-mile gate on No. 1 rabbit-proof fence in May, 1930. On February 9, evidence was given by Mr Arthur W. Sims, dentist, of Hamilton, and a New Zealand jeweller, Mr Andrew Long. Mr Sims stated that Carron, under, the name of Brown, was a patient of his in 1929. Witness said he recognized some lower false teeth as similar to those he had supplied to Brown, also a charred natural molar with a cavity similar to a tooth he filled for the man. Mr Long stated that a wedding ring found in the ashes was very similar to one he had sold to Minnie Alice Brown. This witness also said he was acquainted with the manufacturer of a shirt similar to that found in the camp of the man charged with murdering Brown or Carron. That particular brand of shirt was sold only in New Zealand.