The Temuka Mystery
[ PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I Temuka, July 21. The inquest was opened this morning before Mr R. Beetham, Coroner, touching the death of John Hayhnrst, wbo died and was buried in April, 1889. The work of exhuming the body was begun at 8 this morning, and by the time the jury arrived at 9.30, the coffin was out and placed in a tent Alongside the grave. The lid of the coffin having been taken off, the. jury viewed ihe body, and at the request of the Crown Prosecutor (Mr Martin, of ChristchurchJ, Mr Beetham directed that Drs Ogston and Guth*ie should -make a post mortem examination, and hand such portions of the body as theyiriight choose, to Professor Black, of Dunedin, for analysis. The Coroner and jury then returned to town, and the ■Coroner said he did not propose to call «vidence that day. Circumstances had occurred which, had rendered a full enquiry necessary, and it would therefore be adjourned to 4th August* when the Jesuit of the mvestigatioh of the medical xnen, and other evidence, would be laid before them. The case is exciting immense interest in'South Canterbury, and -farther developments are anxiously looked fox*
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 10, 23 July 1891, Page 3
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199The Temuka Mystery Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 10, 23 July 1891, Page 3
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