HUMAN BONES.
FOUND IN A HANDBAG
A KINGSTON MYSTERY
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.)
LONDON, Aug. 30. The police are investigating the mysterious discovery of a few charred bones in a woman’s handbag at Kingston. Sir Bernard H. Spilsbury, pathologist for the Home Office, has pronounced them portions of a kneebone and a jawbone of a woman or girl. Parts of a torn photograph, also found in the bag, have been traced tli rough a photographer as those of a young Kingston woman. It has since been disclosed that a quantity of woman’s underclothing was found in the men’s section of the Kingston baths the same day.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 1 September 1928, Page 5
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111HUMAN BONES. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 1 September 1928, Page 5
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