A very unexpected find was made by a reafdent on the "hills the other day when out for a ramble. On Sunday last, R. K. Leigh, when descending the below the road near Magazine Gap, noticed in a thicket what appeared to_be a recumbent figure of a Eurpean. On going up to the object he found it was a skeleton dressed in the uniform of the Rifle Brigade. On his return he gave information to the Police, who removed the remains to the Mortuary. Inquiry decided the practical certainty that the remains were those of Private Barton, who had been missing since June last, and who it was thought had either dese: ted or committed suicide.
stated that he was, at the time of his disappearance, not Po fectly sane, ani was staying at the Peak Sanatorium when he was missed. As the unfo: tuna e man had slippers on it would seem that he must have wandered down the hillside ina state of delirium and probably died ina state of unconsciousness. The bones were bleached with sun and wind.
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