MAN’S LEG FOUND IN SEA
— —— Examination By Doctors Engaged On Pi ha Case DISCOVERY ON WAIHEKE ISLAND By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 15. 'rhe gruesome discovery of a man’s unclothed leg lying partly submerged near the water’s edge at Wailieke Island, Hauraki Gulf, was made by a visitor while walking along the beach. The discovery was reported to the police, who had the limb brought to Auckland tonight for examination by the pathologists engaged in the I’iha case. A cursory examination suggested that it had been severed at the knee joint and that it had been submerged in the water for some time.
It is not known if there is anything whereby it can be identified.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 145, 15 March 1939, Page 5
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116MAN’S LEG FOUND IN SEA Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 145, 15 March 1939, Page 5
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