THE LITHGOW TRAGEDY.
THE DEATH OF DYER. SYDNEY, December 25. After the exhumation of the body of James Dwyor, who was found dead nt | Bowenfels, near LHhgow, with 17 knife wounds in his body and his head battered, an exhaustive post-mortem examination was made. It is understood that the medical men are agreed that the head wounds could have been and were self-inflicted. The body has been buried again.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) Tt was thought that Dwyer had been murdered, as lie had been stabbed so extensively, and his head was battered. It has since been assumed that the man frantic with delirium tremens, stabbed himself ineffectively, the ribs stopping the knife, and that he then battered hie head on a stone. • i
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 306, 26 December 1924, Page 5
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