THE GLENBROOK MURDERS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5740, 7 December 1896, Page 3

THE GLENBROOK MURDERS.

» DISCOVERY OF ANOTHER BODY. [Per Press Association.! SYDNEY, Dec. 6. The excitement over the mountain mystery has reached fever heat owing to the discovery of another body, that of "Weller. Hundreds joined in the search to-day, and during the forenoon two residents of Glenbrook, searching in a gully a mile west of the town, came across ground recently disturbed, with twigs and stones piled on top, under a ledge of rock, similar in many respects to the conditions of Preston's grave. The party also found a pick with which the grave evidently had been dug, and a magazine, bearing "VVeiler's name, was discovered near by. On the arrival of the police sufficient earth was removed to disclose the remains of a human body in an advanced stage of decomposition. One side of the face, however, was in a sufficient state of preservation to make the identification of "Weller absolute. The victim had his knees drawn up under his chin, and the body had apparently been jammed into the hole. How he came by his death will not be known until the post-mortem examination tomorrow. One side of the face bears the appeai'anee of being crnshed in. A third man named Desah is missing. He went to Germantown, in the Albury district, and a search will now be instituted there. The Extradition Court will meet tomorrow to draw up the necessary papers with respect to the arrest of Butler, and Detective Roche will, immediately after the sitting, proceed to London to interview the authorities of the Foreign Office to have the documents put in proper order for the extradition of the murderer, if arrested. Constable Conroy, who very nearly decided to accompany Butler in one of his prospecting tours, leaves by the Miowera, en route to Ban Francisco in order to. arrest the accused.