BURIED ALIVE
| . INQUEST ON KIRBYS. j ! BODIES HAD BEEN; DRAGGED. BREATHED AFTER BURIAL. (Received! 11.0 a.m.) LONDON Sept. 21. •■ Medical evidence at the inquest on the Kirby's indicated that both wore buried alive while insensible, death ! occurring eight to twenty hours prior ito exhumation. The man had) several wounds on the head, and scratches on the back indicated that he had been dragged by the feet. Marks on the woman's throat pointed! to strangulation, while scratches on the face, showed that she hjid been dragged a short distance. Her head bore a large abrasion. Grit in her lungs and at the bronchial point of the man's windpipe, led to the conclusion that both gasped fof breath} after burial.—Australian Press Association—United Service. , . I **»hw-
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 40, 25 September 1928, Page 5
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123BURIED ALIVE Stratford Evening Post, Issue 40, 25 September 1928, Page 5
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