FOUL PLAY UNLIKELY
LYTTELTON TRAGEDY. UNUSUAL FEATURES. Per Press Association. CHRISTOHUROH. Last Night. The suggestion that there lias been foul play in tine case of the death of Unas. James Mahan, is Largely discounted by the fact that closer examination of tho body is said to have revealed thai* none of tho injuries was sufficient to cause, death. There are bad flesh wounds, but tho skull ha* not been fractured. It is even suggested- that the wounds mav have been caused, by fish; as a shoal of dog fish were rotund the body whom recovered, it is, however, a rare though not unknown occurrence 'for the body of a person whose death has been caused by drowning to float. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. It is semi-officially stated that the result of a post mortem reveals that llie death of (Charles James Malum, at Lyttelton, was due to drowning ■and not to wounds on the head. No airther evidence has yet been secured as to the man's last movements. :-M Big Fire in Auckland. 1)
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 83, 6 February 1928, Page 5
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