CLAVERLEY MYSTERY
THE EDDY WASHED ASHORE (Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, July 21. There have been no further developments in the police inquiry into the discovery of a woman’s body on Taratuhi Beach, two miles north of the public works camp at Claverley, from which Mrs Harriet Jane Patience disappeared on October 4 last year. The date of the inquest has not yet been fixed, according to Superintendent S. Rawle, of the Christchurch Police Force, who is at present in Kaikoura, where the body has been taken. A party of detectives from Christchurch, including Detective-sergeant J. Bickerdike, who was recalled from his annual leave, has gone to Kaikoura. Detective-sergeant Bickerdike was in charge of the extensive search for Mrs Patience last year.
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Evening Star, Issue 23325, 22 July 1939, Page 10
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122CLAVERLEY MYSTERY Evening Star, Issue 23325, 22 July 1939, Page 10
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