The Body In The Boot
(HZ Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 21. All available Wellington detectives and uniform police were called on duty this afternoon after a bus driver reported seeing a bleeding arm and part of a shoulder hanging from the boot of a car about 4.20 p.m. By the time the police
reached the scene, in Brooklyn, there was no trace of the car. For four hours the police combed every part of the city before they found the car in a lonely back street There the search ended with a simple explanation. A motor firm employee
trying to find a rattle In a car had climbed into the boot of the vehicle while a friend drove the car down the road. On the short journey part of his body stuck out of the boot “The whole thing was completely innocent,” De-tective-Inspector F. Parker said tonight “It was just one of those things.” •IS
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31118, 22 July 1966, Page 1
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