ENGLISH MURDERS
ARRESTED FOR MURDER. (United... Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, September 23. In connection with the murder of the Kirbys, the police have arrested, on the implication of murder, Charles William Conlin, aged twenty-two years, an ex-soldier, and the grandson of the murdered women by her first marriage.
MAN And wife. BURIED ALIVE. (Received this day at 11 a.m.) LONDON, September 2-4. Medical evidence at the inquest on the Kirby’s indicated that both were buried alive while insensible, the death of both occurring from eight to twenty hours prior to exhumation. The man had* several wounds.- on the head and scratches on the back, which indicated that lie had been dragged by liis feet. Marks on the woman’s throat pointed to strangulation, while the scratches on the face showed she was dragged a short distance. Her head bore large -abrasions. Grit in her lungs and at the bronchial point of tlje man’s windpipe led to the conclusion that both gasped for breath after burial.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1928, Page 5
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