HIMITANGI TRAGEDY
POLICE DOUBTS.
(By Telegraph—Press Association)..
AUCKLAND/ Sept. 15. n Advice received here is that the police engaged in.the Himitangi fife investigations admit uncertainty as to whether six, .eigljtr or ten persons perished in the flames. It 1 is reported that although the -remains of eight bodies were buried, one of them was that bf a'dog. " v " Further circumstances strengthening > suspicion of the number f were the unnatural posture in which the remains of the victijns were found and the hole in Thomas -Wright’s'head. Wright and his ► wife. l were bed, feet to feet, and . had. obviously made no attempt to resoue/■'"tlieir children, Wright wqs lying ( on his back,, and it , sperms natural 'to 1 suppose that if the hole in his ’heap Wak caused by -a drop pf molten*/ lead' from the', roof the hole would liriVe 1 been 'on hisface, or on the front of -his-skull. It is not established whether, oiie' man, 'hitherto counted amongst the eight victims, is dead. . ■ . ; >.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1929, Page 5
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164HIMITANGI TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1929, Page 5
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