ANOTHER BONES MYSTERY
SOUTHAMPTON DISCOVERY. (United Prose Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) LONDON, Feb. 12. Another bones mystery is reported from Southampton. The police discovered the greater part of a human skeleton in a rusty trunk, which had lain in a haulage contractor’s yard for four years. Some of the bones were charred, and there was also a quantity of whiting, lime and scraps of rotted material. A thigh boiie was fractured and there was a dark stain on the skull. It is too early to say whether it is a case of murder. MYSTERY EXPLODED. . Received 11.45 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Feb. 13. Investigation shows that the Southampton bones cam© from an ancient burial ground long since covered by an hotei].
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 14 February 1930, Page 7
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