SKELETON IN TRUNK
GRUESOME POLICE FIND IN ENGLAND
SOME BONES CHARRED Reed. 10.30 a.m. LONDON. Thurs. The police of Southampton have discovered the greater part of a human skeleton in a rusty trunk which had lain at a haulage contractor’s yard for four years. Some of the bones were charred. There were also a quantity of whiting and lime, some scraps of rotted material. a thigh bone, and a fractured skull, with a dark stain on it. Subsequent Investigations show that the bones came from an ancient burial ground, long since covered by an hotel.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 897, 14 February 1930, Page 9
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95SKELETON IN TRUNK Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 897, 14 February 1930, Page 9
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