No Arrest Mode In New Brighton Cose
(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. There was no immediate prospect of an arrest, said the Superintendent of Police in Christchurch (Mr H. Scott) this morning, commenting on investigations into the death of Mr James Joyce, waterside worker, whose battered body was found lying on a couch in his home at New Brighton on Wednesday night. Police inquiries are being continued. Of major importance in the case, but still not’ to hand, is the pathologist’s report on the causes of Mr Joyce s death.
Until that is available the hands of the police are, according to Mr Scott, more or less tied.
The pathologist at Christchurch public hospital (Dr A. B. Pearson), who carried out the autopsy on Mr Joyce, said he could not say when the report would be ready. The report is expected to throw light on the question whether blows on his head were the cause of Mr Joyce’s death. It is understood that some of the marks on his battered head were consistent with those that would be inflicted by his being kicked.
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Northern Advocate, 2 June 1947, Page 3
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