DEATH OF A PASSENGER.
SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES. BODY EXHUMED IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, March 3. Owing to certain suspicious circumstances coming to the knowledge of ihe City Coioner, the body of P. Conway, a Dunedin passenger who died 'ftboard the steamer Taluue cn February 19th, was exhumed from the Rookwood Cemetery yesterday. An inquest was opened and adjourned till Friday. It will bel remembered t-liat when the remains were landed at Sydney the Coroner dispensed with an inquest, the cause of death being given as a fit, to which the deceased was alleged to he subject. The authorities are very reticent in regard to the matter, the Coroner haring intimated that it is not in the interests of justice to publish the evidence at present. The police refuse to give any information, but inquiries in other directions indicate that the police'are acting upon rumours which were current amongstother passengers to the effect that the circumstances surrounding Conway’s death were not altogether consistent with natural causes. Statements' have also been made that Conway was supposed to have certain valuables in his possession, but a search of his luggage failed to discover any
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1514, 7 March 1901, Page 48
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189DEATH OF A PASSENGER. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1514, 7 March 1901, Page 48
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