THE LYTTELTON MYSTERY
INQUEST ADJOURNED. WAS FOUL PLAY? Christchurch, Feb. L The suggestion that James Mahon whose body was found in the Lyttelton harboui hud met with foul play lias been largely discounted by the fact that a closer examination of the body is said to have revealed that none of the injuries was sufficient to cause death. They are bad flesh wounds, but th« skull has not been fractured It, is even suggested the wounds had been caused by fich, as a shoal of dog fish were round the body when recovered. It is. however, a rare, though not unknown, occurrence for the body of a person whose death had been caused by drowning to float. Several boys were bathing from the swimming steps at Lyttelton, and one of them has given information as to a man answering Mahon’s description being near the swimming steps at 8 o’clock The boys were cheeking him. He talked a good deal—mostly nonsense, it seems—and he appeared to be “drunk, or dopy,’’ according to the boys’ account. The coroner ordered a post-mortem examination of the body, and adjourned the inquest.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 46, 6 February 1928, Page 8
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