CLAVERLEY MYSTERY TAKES NEW TURN
Three Police Officers In District By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, July 27. Police inquiries into the Claverley mystery took a new turn today, when Superintendent S. Rawle and ChiefDetective W. H. Dunlop left by car for Kaikoura. There they were joined by Senior-Sergeant J. Bickerdike, who left for the Claverley district immediately after the inquest on Tuesday into the death of Mrs. Harriet Jane Patience. A conference of the men in charge of the Claverley mystery was to have been held in Kaikoura this afternoon. Post-mortem work on the body of Mrs. Patience, who disappeared from the Public Works camp at Claverley on October 4 last is being continued by Dr. Pearson, pathologist at the Christchurch Public Hospital. It is believed that he has determined the cause of death, and that, renewed police activity today is the result of his first report.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 257, 28 July 1939, Page 6
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