Body Found On Irish Coast

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31383, 31 May 1967, Page 15

Body Found On Irish Coast

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, May 30. Scotland Yard, Interpol and the F. 8.1. have been called in to help solve the mystery of a near-nude body of a woman found on a lonely seashore on the west coast of Ireland, the ‘‘Evening News” said.

The dead woman, aged : about 40, was found at Doolin, a village in County Clare. She had a fractured skull, broken arms, legs, and ribs. Police are investigating two theories—the woman was dropped from an aircraft or that she was murdered on a passing ship and thrown into the sea. The only garment on the body was marked “U.S.A.” There is no clue to the woman’s identity or to how she came to be on the isolated beach. At an inquest into the woman’s death, three local hotel witnesses said the body was that of Miss Patricia Kelly, an American tourist, who had been staying in the district—but the hearing was interrupted by Police Superintendent John Butler, who revealed that Miss Kelly was

alive and in a hotel in Aberdeen, Scotland. The “Evening News” reported that a pathologist said the woman’s injuries were simultaneous with death. She was not drowned. The woman had expensive tooth fillings, well-manicured fingernails and toenails and had a suntan which she could not have got in Ireland in recent weeks. No car has been found in the area, and she was not staying at a hotel or guest house in Clare, police say. Police are trying to trace two men and a woman who took off for the Aran Islands by helicopter last Tuesday and later returned to the mainland.

Their route would have passed near Doolin.

Police have searched the coast intensively for the woman’s missing clothes and handbag, but without result