MYSTERY REVIVED

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 45, 17 November 1941, Page 8

MYSTERY REVIVED

The Pyjama Girl Case

CLAIM BY WOMAN (Received November 16, 6.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, November 16. What is known as the.“Pyjama Girl Mystery” Has been revived by u claim by Mrs. Rutledge, a resident on the south coast of New South Wales, that the murdered girl was her daughter, Anna Philomena Morgan, by a previous marriage, and that she went missing about the time the pyjama girl’s mutilated and partially burned body was discovered beneath a water culvert near Albury in 1934, since when it has become Australia’s greatest unsolved crime. Detectives preserved the body in a formalin bath at the University for six years in the hope that somebody would establish its Identification. Mrs. Rutledge’s claim is backed by a Sydney specialist, who declares that the dead girl’s features and other characteristics, when compared with a photograph of Miss Morgan, definitely establish its identity. The police challenge this and insist that they have traced Mrs. Rutledge’s daughter to Queensland. The matter has now entered still another phase. A representative of the Sydney “Daily Mirror” ascertained that the body had been removed from the University. The police admit that they have it but refuse to disclose its whereabouts. .Mrs. Rutledge, it is understood, intends to apply to the Supreme Court calling on the police to deliver the body to her. A heavy reward is attached to identification of the body and information likely to lead to the apprehension of the murderer.