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PIHA FIRE MYSTERY

Opinion On Leg Found On Waiheke Island PATHOLOGISTS’ VIEW By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 15. There were no major developments today in the I’ilia fire case. The leg retrieved on Tuesday morning from the beach between Cowes Bay and Councils Bay on Waiheke Island was examined by pathologists,’ who are of opinion that it belonged to a much younger man than Patrick Henry Shine, whose body was missing from its coflin when the police a grave in Waikumete Cemetery on dayThe precautions taken by the police in this instance are common to eases such as the one they have in baud. Though there is no conclusive evidence, there is a suggestion that the leg found on Waiheke may have belonged to one of four people drowned in Hauraki Gulf since the beginning of the year.

No one other than those persons immediately concerned lias been permitted to see the remains found at. Piha, and Dr. Gilmour, who has charge of the pathological examination, has not made an official report to the police. The scope of investigations, eithec by scientists in their examination of the various materials or by detectives in their field work, is so wide that it may be several weeks before they are able to prepare their final reports.

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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 146, 16 March 1939, Page 11

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PIHA FIRE MYSTERY Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 146, 16 March 1939, Page 11

PIHA FIRE MYSTERY Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 146, 16 March 1939, Page 11

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