INQUEST NEARS END

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21384, 20 April 1944, Page 4

INQUEST NEARS END

“PYJAMA GIRL’S” DEATH EVIDENCE OF SOLDIER (10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, April 20. The inquest on the body of the “pyjama girl,” which was "found partially burnt under a culvert at Albury in September, 1934, is now nearing the end.' Yesterday was the sixteenth day. A few more witnesses remain to be heard, either to-day or on Friday, after which counsel will address the coroner, who will probably adjourn to consider his finding-. The principal evidence yesterday was from a surprise witness, John Francis Overend, soldier, who said that he was sometimes known as Johnny or Ginger Quinn. Mr. Read, counsel assisting the coroner, said that this man Was very anxious to give evidence. Earlier in the week, Thomas Johnston Qdinn, also a soldier, gave evidence denying certain alleged happenings in a |hack near Albury. Overend said that he lived for many years at 1 Albury with an aunt, Mrs. A. M. Quinn. Thomas Quinn Wa’s his ■cousin. Overend said he knew the witness, Lucy Collins, who-lived in a shack nebr Albury but he had never gone to the -shack while she waS living there. He never knew of a visit to the shack of a strange girl. Nothing had ever happened like Dr. Behbow had stated as having been described to him by Lucy Collins.