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TIHE MISSING MAN, BRIGGS.
HIS BODY FOUND.
On February 19 last, a young married man
named Bertram Briggs, who lived at Mount
Lawley, left his employment in the city at
noon, and disappeared. His failure to re
turn to his home or his work caused his wife
and friends to invoke the aid of the police
and others in searching for him. Detach
ments of Boy Scouts as well as mounted
troopers, scoured the bush between Subiaco
and the coast, and also spent several days in
searching Crawley and King's Park lands.
On more than one occasion it was reported
that a man answertug the published descrip
tion of Briggs was seen, but all efforts to
trace him were fruitless.
Yesterday Mr. Kinsella, a dairyman, was
looking for a cow that had strayed, and
when passing through a thicket about a
mile north-east of the Hospital for the In
sane, he found the body of the missing man.
It was in such an advanced stage of decom-
position that identification was impossible
but alongside it there was a bag which had
belonged to Briggs and attached to his
clothing was a medal upon which his name
was unscribed. The thicket is very dense and
prickly, and it was only due to the fact that
Mr. Kinsella thought it poesible that his cow
was ill and therefore carefully examined all
places likely to give it refuge that he was
the means of clearing up the mystery con
cerning the disappearance of Briggs. At
the time he was last seen, Briggs was grief
stricken at the loss of his only child. There
are indications that he committed suicide,
for alongside the body there was a five-cham-
bered revolver with three loaded cartridges
and two empty cartridge shells in it. Con
stables Robinson, of West Perth, and
McLernon, of Leederville, took the remains to
the morgue last night, and an inquest will
be opened to-day.
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