BURIAL SERVICE HELD UP
COFFIN REMOVED BY POLICE. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyrighf. Sydney, July 23. Detectives, acting with dramatic suddenness, yesterday held up a funeral in the Rockwood Cemetery and took charge of the coffin, which was later placed in the morgue. It is stated that William Minihan died suddenly after vaccination. Minihan came from New Zealand with his wife and family. He intended going to New Guinea and decided to get vaccinated agdttst typhoid. The authorities have taken possession of the body in order to be able to test the serum.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1929, Page 11
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