FIGHT IN MOTOR-CAR

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 610, 12 March 1929, Page 9

FIGHT IN MOTOR-CAR

AUSTRALIAN MYSTERY “MY MEMORY IS BLANK” (Lnitcd I*.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) Reed. 11 a.m. SYDNEY, To-day. Mr. Leslie Williams, aged 23, the electrical engineer, whom the police believed to have been murdered, and whose car was found abandoned at Donnybrook, at the end of January, has reappeared. He is now back with his parents at Eastwood, a suburb of Sydney. The father of Mr. Williams, who is stipendiary magistrate, told journalists yesterday that his son was quite well, but declined to be interviewed.

To-day Williams told the police: “I can remember being in company with Viscoe, who was arrested in connection with the case, but I cannot remember how I got to Melbourne. I remember giving Viscoe a lift in the car, and there was a fight, but after that my memory is a blank.”

“Ihe police have not been able to trace Leslie Williams, electrical engineer, whose motor-car was found at Donnybrook, near Melbourne, at the week-end, * elboi, ™ e message of January 3o! ine father and brother of the missing man say there is no reason to think he committed suicide.

The affair has taken a strange turn. A swagman to-day reported to a local hotelkeeper that he was given a lift in somebody’s car and was attacked and robbed of a sum of *;7 IDs. He says the attack occurred on the same night that Mr. Williams’s car was found abandoned.

A later messags said: The police have detained the swagman, Viscoe, who told a hotelkeeper he had been attacked and robbed on the night the car was found. This man was discovered at Murtoa, Northern Victoria, 200 miles from Donnybrook. He has been charged at Coburg, a suburb of Melbourne, with vagrancy. He says he was attacked by the driver of a car who had given him a lift. He was robbed and then thrown on to the road.

There is a wound over the man’s left eye and his singlet is bloodstained. There is still no trace of Mr. Williams and the police are dragging rivers and waterholes in the locality where his tar was found.