LOEWENSTEIN ALIVE WHEN STRUCK WATER

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6668, 23 July 1928, Page 7

LOEWENSTEIN ALIVE WHEN STRUCK WATER

POST-MORTEM AT CALAIS c : ■A) : r— —- AUTOPSY NECESSARY TO ; PUT END TO SCANDAL United Press Association —By Electric 1 elegraph—Copyright. Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m. PARIS, July 21. A message from Calais states that the autopsy of Captain Loewenstein disclosed a partial fracture of the skull. Every bone in the body was broken. Indications are that he was alive when he struck the water. Tho cause of death will not be decided till tho toxicological examination i- completed. Earlier cables from Paris were to the effect:— A Boulogne message states that a French Court will investigate the discovery of Loewenstein’s body. Tho family desires his intestines to bo analysed." V Madame Loewenstein l is motoring from Brussels to Boulogne. * A Calais message states' explaining why tho Looweqstein family desired an autopsy that his brothers-in-law, Maitre Convord and Lieutenant Misonno, said they suspected no one but did not want someone after his burial saying he might have been poisoned before entering tho aeroplane, or might have died in tho aeroplane and then been pushed out. Most extraordinary versions of the tragedy are being circulated, including a theory of. murder following a squabble aboard. ■ A,

Eelativcs state that this is absurd as Capt. Loewenstein was strong enough to deal with two or three men.

The skipper of the fishing boat has been rewarded £BO.