BROWN'S BAY MYSTERY
BODY NOT IDENTIFIED
(By- Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND,' 18th May.
.-' Complete, mystery surrounds the finding '. of the ■ decomposed body of a woman, thought -to be between 40 and 50: years of; .age, in some scrub at the top of a cliff' 150 feet high at Brown's Bay;/:"'-;: -'■.." ~■. ;■'■' ■ " "■■ :' , ■ ■'' The discovery was made by two schoolboys. The body had evidently been exposed to. the weather for several months. A few feet-away from where the body was lying was:found a faded hat, and nearer the corpse was a handbag and its contents, including part of a newspaper. It is hoped: that it will be possible to identify the body by the contents of the' bag.' ; ' In order to get the body away from the locality it was necessary to hack a path' through the scrub.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 116, 19 May 1931, Page 10
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