DEATH OF DETECTIVES.
+ POLICE IN VESTIGATI ON S. EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST. BY GABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 11.3-5 a.m. to-day. PERTH. July 1. At the inquest in connection with the death of Detectives Walsh and Pitman, Detective-Sergeant Manning gave evidence that Evan Clarke, one of those held on a charge of murder, made two statements, the second of which resulted in Coulter’s arrest. On the strength of the other statement, he and other detectives found near the Boulder racecourse some earth and congealed blood, which Clarke said had been put there by Coulter after it had been removed from the bush in his (Clarke’s) car. Detective-Sergeant Maiming said that about fifty paces from the gold-treating plant, where it is alleged the detectives were killed, was a spot from- which some earth had been removed. The inquest was adjourned.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 1 July 1926, Page 5
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