YORKSHIRE SKELETONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26630, 28 November 1947, Page 5

YORKSHIRE SKELETONS

ENEMY AGENTS SUGGESTED POISON AMPOULE FOUND N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 26. The mystery surrounding the discovery of the skeletons of two unknown men in caves on the slopes of Inglesborough Hill and near Skipton, Yorkshire, last August, has deepened with the disclosure at the inquest this week that a poison phial similar to that used by Himmler and Goering when they committed suicide was discovered lying near one of the skeletons. The first skeleton was found by two trampers on August 24, and the other was discovered in an adjoining cave a week later. The entrance to the cave in which the first body was found had been blocked by stones. One witness, Dr L. R. Nicholls, of Wakefield Forensic Laboratory, said he had never seen anything resembling the poison ampoule in Britain before. Professor P. L. Sutherland, Government pathologist, said the man who had apparently carried the poison phiaj had died between 1941 and 1945. Nc traces of poison had been found the remains.

The cproner. Mr S. E' Brown, said it was possible that the skeletons were those of enemy agents who had been dropped by parachute. The jury returned an open verdict in the case of one man and expressed the opinion that in the case of the second man death might have been caused by a fall.