IRISH POSTMAN’S DEATH
NO CLUE TO CHRISTMAS NIGHT MYSTERY
TEN PERSONS ARRESTED DUBLIN, Wednesday. Irish Civic Guards unsuccessfully dragged a disused mine shaft, 600 ft deep, in a search for the body of Laurence Griffin, a postman, who disappeared from .Stradbally on Christmas night. The shaft is situated on the wild and lonely coast of Bonmahon Bay. The only dwellinghouse is a cottage, whose occupants reported having heard a car draw up on Christmas night. It is now suggested that Griffin mav not have been murdered, but spirited away. A big legal battle is expected over the police attempt to prosecute the charge against the 10 accused persons without producing the body of the man alleged to have been killed
The sensational allegation that Griffin was sewn up in a blanket while still alive and thrown over a bridge or down a mine shaft was made by the State Prosecutor, Mr. Finlay, in the Waterford Police Court, when ' 0 persons from Stradbally including Thomas Cashin, a school teacher; Edmund Morrissey, a labourer; Patrick Whelan, an hotelkeeper, his wife, son and daughter, and two Civic Guards, were charged with murdering Griffin, and
conspiring to dispose of the body. The police said Griffin had been knocked down in an hotel after a quarrel, and his body taken away in a car.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 897, 14 February 1930, Page 9
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219IRISH POSTMAN’S DEATH Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 897, 14 February 1930, Page 9
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