Trove Tuesday - The Essendon body mystery continued.

My earlier Trove Tuesday post about the body mystery at the Cross Keys Hotel prompted me to go looking to see if the case was ever solved.

It was in fact solved not long after but hardly got a mention in the Victorian papers. 

COLONIAL TELEGRAMS. (1889, December 28). The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 -

1931), p. 4. Retrieved September 16, 2014, from

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24490700

and a little later the following story

General News. (1890, January 3). The Narracoorte Herald (SA : 1875 - 1954), p. 3. 

Retrieved September 16, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article145922161