MOUAT TRIAL
(Per Press Association.) ~j .CHRISTCHURCH^., .May 13. There was 4 agajß. a j large) crowdr of spectatorswhen tile trial-of'Frederick Peter Mouat wascontinuedJ ?- In’ th#--course. of Professor Gowland said he had not had personal experience of a human body that had been burnt, but there were cases of- the destructions of the human body by fire in an American work, by Peterson and Haynes. It showed that the use of fire to destroy the human body in order to remove evidence: of crime'was a somewhat common - opcuri'BUce > in* criminal cases. In one instance cited, a man weighing 1601bs was burned experimentally. No pieces pf bone over two inches long were left. All the pieces that could be identified as bones would go into a large cigar box. Mr Thomas (for the defence): “In cremation/ -js, it possible to burn a body in three or four hours?” _ - Professor '.Gowland: “Yes! The shortest time’in (which a body has been burnt is one hour.” . , Are you. able to give the jury any instances of. the. burning of : a body in a grate, without drafts, 13 inches by 11 inches by, seven,liiiQhes?: —No,, because th-e.dimensions are not given in the quoted- cases.’
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 May 1925, Page 5
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