GRUESOME FIND
IN LEFT LUGGAGE OFFICE. BODY OF MONTH-OLD BABY. AUCKLAND, This Day. A gruesome discovery was made yesterday afternoon by a clerk at the Auckland railway station left luggage office, the decomposed body of an infant being found in a suitcase that had been left on August 8. For the last few days, men working in the office had noticed a .peculiar odour in the place, and yesterday afternoon, when working near i this particular suitcase, one of them was nearly overcome. <
The case, which was not locked* was opened, and inside was found the dead body of an infant, a month or six weeks old. The body was wrapped in some old rags and a jersey. The suitcase was one of the cheap composition kind.
The body was removed by the police, and a post mortem examination will be made prior to the bolding of the in* quest.—Press Assn. I
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Northern Advocate, 23 September 1927, Page 4
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