AUCKLAND.
December 21
Acting upon the permission given by tbe Presbyterian cemetery trustees, Superintendent Thompson had the bodies of the late Hugh A. Hamilton and his infant child disinterred yesterday and conveyed to tbe morgue. Dr Goldsbro' made an autopsy, there being also present Drs Walker and Dawson, Superintendent Thompson, Detectives Strathearn and Walker, and the undertaker who interred tbe bodies. The Press requested permission to attend tbe examination but were refused. The body of Hamilton web iound to be in an advanced state of decomposition. The preliminary stages of autopsy disclosed facts that have not even been suspected, and will, when made public, intensify the painful interest which is concentrated upon tbe case. The fracture of the skull was found to be more extensive and serious than had beeu anticipated. As to the strychnine alleged to have been purchased, nothing to indicate anything of the kind in either the bqdy of Hamilton or the cbild was found.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3573, 21 December 1882, Page 3
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