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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 4. 1966.

[introduction]

Police and public were shocked and embarrassed by the Pigeon Park "Murder" of 1964.

At Exactly 1.06p.m. on the day before procesh, an old car sped up Dixon Street, Someone leaned out of the rear window and fired two pistol shots. A young man walking through Pigeon Park threw up his arms and collapsed on the grass.

Two public-minded "citizens" ran across the park from Manners Street and Dixon Street. They knelt down beside the "body" and rolled it over. As the "body" rolled over blood spurted forth from a plastic bag filled with ox blood.

A number of female "onlookers" immediately began to scream in unison.