In one of the most famous unsolved mysteries in New Zealand history, just over 35 years ago, a caretaker in a Wellington building bent over to pick up a suitcase that had been left behind earlier in the day.
It contained the equivalent of three sticks of gelignite in explosive power which was set off by an unusual switch device inside the suitcase.
Sixty-four year old Ernie Abbott was killed instantly and police have never laid charges for his death on the 27th of March, 1984 at the Trades Hall in Vivian Street, Wellington. Secretary of the Wellington Trades Council, Graeme Clark remembers that day and the confusion that followed.
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