A PIECE OF SKULL
RECENT ORIGIN
POLICE DISPLAY INTEREST
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The police have a tantalising subject for speculation in the fragment of human skull found recently on the beach at Goose Bay, some miles north of Claverly. It may be a clue to the fate of Mrs. Harriet Jane Patience, aged 60, who disappeared on October 4 from the Public Works camp at Claverly, where her husband, Arthur John Patience, was employed. In the fragment of skull the police cannot at the moment see anything that will carry them much nearer a solution of the mystery. It is merely the dome of a skull, like the drinking cups the ancient Maoris made' out of the brainpans of their fallen enemies, and indeed the find was thought at first to be no more than a relic of Maori days such as is often picked up along that coast. An examination showed, however, by the amount of animal matter present in the bon.±, that it was of comparatively recent origin and it has been submitted to the pathologist at the Christohurch Hospital, Dr. A. B. Pearson, for expert examination.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 64, 17 March 1939, Page 11
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192A PIECE OF SKULL Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 64, 17 March 1939, Page 11
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