WARDROBE MURDER

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12904, 3 July 1936, Page 5

WARDROBE MURDER

NAME OF SUSPECT REVEALED. HARBOR BODY STILL UNDER EXAMINATION* (U.P.A. by Elec: ,Tcl. Copyright';. (Received July .2, 11 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 2. The police have revealed the name, of the man wanted, in connection with the wardrobe crime. Ho-is,-William Arthur Scott,--Efforts arc still being made to identify fingerprints from a thumb on the body found in the harbor. Experts had to employ infra red photography to aid them in the task, which sc far is uncompleted. ACT OF CALLOUS INDIVIDUAL. CAREEI LLY-PLANNED CR IME. SYDNEY, June 23. in connecton with the wardrooo murder, the police found ■ the bodv. which was that of a small woman, jammed brutally into the space at the bottom of it. The body, which was fully clothed, was face upwards, with the knees bent. The head was twisted sideways, and the woman’s long dark hair, which was stained with blood, had fallen forward over her lace and neck, hiding the strong string which had been twisted tightly round her neck. A wound in the forehead had bled freely. The victim had been living in Darlingluirst. An examination of the body showed that, the woman had been dead for at least four days, and possibly longer. All the evidence indicated a carefully planned and callously executed murder. It is believed that the woman was attacked without warning, and probably stunned by tlio blow on the forehead before she was strangled. _