"CONFESSION" BY CONSTABLE
DICTATION BY GRAHAM
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HOKITIKA, October 10,
It is now revealed officially that Graham, after he had wounded Best, and the other three police were lying dead, shot him again and then dictated a document to.Best, and made him sign it.
The "confession" said that Best and the other constables had come out "to murder" Graham. Best, gravely wounded, signed it to keep Graham quiet, and Graham then went out to the bush, leaving Best lying across the dead constables (Jordan and TuH loch). .
There is some comment in the district that the police were not all sent out armed. Sergeant Cooper was carrying an automatic pistol, but did not have a chance to use it. Graham took it off his dead body, out of his pocket, and still has it.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 89, 11 October 1941, Page 10
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