COATS’ TRIAL
DR- McGAVIN’S INTERPRETATION.
RIGHT TO BE RESERVED
[By Telegraph, Per Press Association-i
WELLINGTON, November 10.
Wilson said that, in regard to the suggestion that the girl died in the position in which she was found, he was of the opinion it could be explained otherwise. There was nothing to suggest that she did riot die with her head down the bank in the Jggs||i9 n described by Coats. Wilson, was still in the box when the Court adjourned for lunch. Under further examination by the Crown Prosecutor at the continuation of the charge against Coats of murdering Phyllis Symons to-day, -Sir Donald Mc-Gav-in said that he accepted unreservedly IDr Lynch’s finding at the post mortem, examination, but he reserved to himself the right to make his own interpretations as to the .cause of injuries. It was a surgical question, not a pathological one.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1931, Page 6
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