Tiger Creek miner drowned – PM report

Frankie Lewis

A post-mortem examination performed on the body of miner Frankie Lewis yesterday re-vealed the cause of death as drowning and asphyxiation.

On Saturday Lewis’s wife, mother-in-law and other relatives had disputed this fact, as they felt that he met with foul play while in the interior. On viewing the body of the 24-year-old miner at the Lyken’s Funeral Parlour, the relatives had stated that they’d seen marks of violence

However, there was no mention of