THE DUFF CASE
FURigIER ; iNQtIEST, PROPOSED
'C.y Telegraph-Copyright)
'Received this day at 8 ami.) London, July 3. ' , Hie^Att'o’rney r -General applied to the Lord Chief, Justice,, for an .order for a further inquest or. the body of Edmund Duff. , Mr Jowitt said the body; was in remarkable' preservation, .which wgs not without significance. . He.. added that an examination of . some organs was said to have shewn substantial traces, of arsenic, . . ..,
Mrs Grace Duff has written to the newspapers protesting at the report that the police propose again to exhume, her husband’s body. . She. says she knows ,this is a dreadful, 'difficult casp and does , not want to make difficulties, but even savages respect their dead.:
Apropos the letter, the -police deny conteinphU‘ng another, exhumation, but a ssepr.'l ’'nq.uest is expected to .open- in ji fortnight.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19290703.2.52
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1929, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
135THE DUFF CASE Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1929, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in