PANMURE MYSTERY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 217, 11 June 1935, Page 10

PANMURE MYSTERY

Difficult Task For Police

MISSING GIRL PROBLEM

By Telegraph.—Press Association

Auckland, Juue 10.

Tlie mystery surrounding the death of the young woman whose body was found in the Tamaki River at Panmure on June 2 is proving difficult to solve, and the police are faced with an equally difficult task in endeavouring to trace the missing Te Puke girl, Mary Elizabeth Raymond, The body remains unidentified, and no statement has yet been made as to the cause of death.

After thorough inquiry, detectives have succeeded in tracing the origin of a bundle of clothing that was seen by two boys in the river above Panmure bridge. It has been definitely established that the clothing was in no way connected either with the dead girl or Miss Raymond, but that it was tied up and thrown into the Panmure basin on Anzac Day. The bundle of clothing was thrown into the water as a simple method of disposing of it. Constables were engaged to-day in a search of the foreshore near Buckland’s Beach in the hope that any clothing belonging to the dead girl might have been cast ashore by the rough seas at the week-end.

It is stated by the police that no arrangements have yet been made for tlie interment of the body.