MISSING POSTMAN.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19853, 14 February 1930, Page 9

MISSING POSTMAN.

POLICE SEARCH UNSUCCESSFUL. fcIBIB *"« 9 "SOCIiTION—BT ELECTRIC ** tmSOJUTH—COFYBIO3T.) deceived February 13th, 7 p.m.) LONDON, February 12. Irish Civic Guards unsuccessfully a disused mine shaft, six hunfrj feet deep, in %earch of the body if tl» missing postman, Laurence Grifk Tbe>baft is situated on the wild, Shl* coast of Bonmahon Bay. The (tailing house is a cottage, the wMMBt of which reported hearing a at draw up on Christmas night. It is WW suggested that Griffin niay »th.»rUn murdered, but spirited Tbia kg»l battle is expected over the attemiM the police to prosecute a chug* afrinrf the ten accused without producing the body. , . IIT rr*T pobUsußd at the beginning d tbe veek lUted that Laurence Griffin, a Fne State teatman, disappeued at Stradbally, County Galwty, on Christmas nighfc; The police tetrcb for the body in g neighbouring win* ihaft was onftuccessful. . A■■ sensational sQeattion that Griffin was sewn n> ia a bUnkefc while still alive and torom> orw a, bridge or down the mine shaft was made by the State Proleeutar, Mr Finlay, in the Waterford Police Court, When ten inhabitants of Stradbally were charged with murderag Griffin and conspiring to dispose •f the body. The prosecution asserted tasithe miniog man was knocked to® faring a quarrel in a hotel tat tod hit his head* on the stove, •fter vbich he' neither moved nor gob, - The injured man, while still friUfc sewn in a blanket, placed a a car, and disposed of.]