UNUSUAL CASE
INQUEST WITHOUT A BODY.
(Per United Press Association.)
Auckland, July 17.
The unusual course of holding an inquest without a body will be followed in the case of Edward Henry Hawkins, a young man who is believed to have been drowned in the harbour on May 29. The Attorney-General having received a report from the Magistrate that the missing man’s body is believed to have been destroyed or to be lying in a place whence it is not recoverable, has directed the Magistrate, Mr Hunt, to proceed with the inquest.
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Southland Times, Issue 22070, 18 July 1933, Page 7
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92UNUSUAL CASE Southland Times, Issue 22070, 18 July 1933, Page 7
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