WHERE WAS MISS SCARF?

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1131, 20 June 1927, Page 8

WHERE WAS MISS SCARF?

'TFFSHAA' NIGHT’S AIVSTFRY. PUZZLE FOR Tl IH POLICE. I (Per Press Association) Christchurch. .June 19 No arrest has yet l»een made for the murder of Gwendoline Scat If, found dead in the scrub at Harwood on Wednesday afternoon. •It is assumed the murder look place that day but it is stated ‘he ‘police still seek information as to where (he girl spent 'Tuesday night. She left the hotel where she was staying on Tuesday, aml deposited her heavy luggage at the tramway depot and 'apparently took with her her nightdress and toilet requisites lo spend the night elsewhere. To-day a party of twenty police made a 1 borough search ol the scrub at the scene of the murder blit without finding anything likely to help incest igat ions. Occasionally men have camped in the scrub, for days or weeks, and the search was for tract's of such people, 'The police, however, found none. In any case the murderer's weapon was a motor spanner stud the general belief is that the murderer either had a motor car or had the use of one.