SEVERED LEG FOUND
WAIHEKE DISCOVERY IDENTIFICATION EFFORTS PIH.A CASE INQUIRIES (For Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The gruesome discovery of a man’s unclothed leg lying partly submerged near the water’s edge at Waiheke Island, Hauraki Gulf, was made by a visitor while walking along the beach. The discovery was reported to the police, who had the limb brought to Auckland last night for examination by the pathologists engaged in the Piha case. A cursory examination suggested that the leg had been severed at the knee joint. It had been submerged in water for some time. It was not known last night if there was anything whereby the leg could be identified.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19887, 15 March 1939, Page 4
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111SEVERED LEG FOUND Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19887, 15 March 1939, Page 4
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