EMPTY COFFIN
DEVELOPMENT IN PIHA FIRE MYSTERY ARREST OF GORDON McKAY’S COMPANION. GRAVE OPENED BY POLICE. (By Te’egraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March 10. A sensational sequel to the Piha fire ■ mystery and the allegation that Gordon Thomas McKay, Sydney business man, was burnt to death, occurred today when the Auckland police opened a comparatively new grave at-the Wqikumete Cemetery to find the coffin empty. Subsequently, James Arthur Talbot, companion of McKay at Pihrf when the bach was burnt, was arrested by defectives on a charge of improperly interfering with human remains. He will appear in court tomorrow. Examination of the grave and the arrest of Talbot are expected to have an important bearing on the major mystery of the fire which has engaged the attention of the police since the morning of February 12, when a fourroomed shack in Sylvia Avenue, Piha, was destroyed by fire. Human remains found in the gutted building were alleged by Talbot to be those of McKay.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 March 1939, Page 8
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161EMPTY COFFIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 March 1939, Page 8
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