Otago Daily Times, 26 February 1901

A CLIFFS MYSTERY
A DECOMPOSED BODY FOUND
CAUGHT IN THE CREVISE OF A ROCK

Two boys named Edward Dyer and Charles Goodman reported to the police at South Dunedin on February 1 that while rabbiting on the cliffs, about a mile and a half beyond Mr E.B. Cargill's residence, they found the remains of a man in an advanced stage of decomposition in a small, steep gully overlooking the cliffs. Sergeant Conn, accompanied by the two boys, at once proceeded to the place in question, and found the body in the condition described. It was jammed in the crevise of a rock, in a sitting position. The head was all decayed, and only the bones remained. The body was dressed in a brown coat, vest, and trousers, and a brown hat was found lying close to it, while a sugar-bag containing a white blanket and a red and white cotton shirt lay about two yards away towards the front of the cliff. This would seem to indicate that the man had fallen into the crevise where he lay and had died there. The body was removed on Saturday morning to St. Clair.