HUMAN REMAINS FOUND
DISCOVERY IN BURNING BACH SECOND DAY OF PIHA FIRE CASE (By Tel.—Times Special Reporter) AUCKLAND, Wednesday When the Piha fire case resumed in the City Police Court this morning before Mr C. R. Orr Walker, SM. fifteen further witnesses, including the police officers engaged, remained to be heard. The accused ' are Gordon Robert McKay, wool and skin dealer (43) and James Arthur Talbot (38), both of Australia. They are jointly charged with improperly interfering with a dead human body, that of Patrick Henry Shine, at Auckland on February 10, and with wilfully setting fire to the dwelling house of Florence Jessie Thomas, thereby committing arson, at Piha on February 12.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20784, 19 April 1939, Page 8
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