KOITERANGI DEATHS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 29 October 1941, Page 4

KOITERANGI DEATHS

d ' ri PREPARATIONS FOR INQUEST Greymouth, Oct. 28. e j There was a total effective insure j a nee cover of £550 on the house, out- . ; buildings and milking plant of the ii 1 late Stanley Graham, Koiterangi, held . j with the Liverpool, London and Globe ( 1 Insurance Coy.. £3OO ol' which will bo i s i payable as only the house was dee ; stroyed. There are no new developments in 11 1 the case. The sole injured survivor of e the liist afternoon’s shooting at the 1 Graham homestead, Mr G. S. Ridley continues to show further satisfjc- ] v t< ry improvement in th? Westland 1 1 Hospital, though his condition is ac’uakv .-'PI listed as serious. A vast amount of preparatory woik I has been entailed «n assembling ell 1 j data nr connection with the KoPeinmb j tragedi... but the oulk ot th s has : si ed I and. wr.en narrowed down lo essential j detail for the purpose of the seven in- ; quests, which will logically be taken tote ner, evidence is not expected to occupy more than one full day’s hear - ] ing. Though no definite date has been I . fixed for the complcb.oll of the ad-' journed inquests, which will be held , in Hokitika, it is thought likely that < they will be held early in November. I possibly in a little over a week's lime. , t Had there been need for a murder I trial, the police would have presented 1 as exhibits scores of links in the J chain of events connected with the 1 case, the greatest care having been ] exercised by investigators In sat'e- ! guarding and lis-ing material evidence. -uch as portions fl discharged bullets [ j found after the oost- mortem examina-] 1 ! lions in tlie bodies, also rifles, re- , ',\oivers and mai.v other article- with • of l! esc probable r>i.ibits will not l o : ! roquired exon the umuc.-., giovced. .L 7. ' i