PYJAMA GIRL MURDER

Grey River Argus, 19 October 1934, Page 5

PYJAMA GIRL MURDER

WELLINGTON SEARCH Former Christchurch Girl PHOTO VERIFIED (Per Press AssociaFon.) WELINGTON, October 18. The New Zealand police in an effort to establish the identity of the victim of the “Pyjama” girl murder at Aibury. Australia, have been seeking information '.of the whereabouts of Ma.rgaro.t or Beryl Cashmere, formerly of Christchurch. This search has fol'h wed on a statement by a Airs Lydia Bagley, of Australia, who said that she knew Ali.'s Cashmere, in Australia a month before the tragedy. Alrg Bagley also is said to have identified I’he pair of Chinese silk pyjamas found on the Al bury victim as belonging to the girl Cashmere. On Monday the “Dominion” newspaper here, published a photograph < f a young woman as being that -of the mi/sing girl for whom the police were inquiring. To-night the police stated # tha|t they ; were satisfied that photograph was that of the woman whom they have seen this evening.

A “Dominion” reporter interviewed here a voting married woman. 26 years <>f age, and a blonde, who said that she had been in Christchurch till 1927. when she came to Wellington. She gave her maiden iyuue as Margaret Cashmere. She said that she had never been to Australia, but had been in Wellington since 1927, and that she had been married eight months ago. The young woman also statee that she had been educated at St. Alary’s Convent. Christchurch, till she was about 11 years of age, and had later gone to |the Woolston. Leeston and Linwood Public Schools. She had been at school until about 1925, and from then, till she left in 1927, she had been in domestic service. She explained that she had not kept touch with her friends in Christchurch. Some of them she had not written to for three years or more, and, as they did not know her whereabouts, they had become concerned, and had supplied her photograph and information in response to appeals by the police. She did not know whether she had any relations alive, or anything that wou’d associate her with Australia. She added that she had made a statement to the police. The police here are satisfied that the person who was interviewed by the “Dominion” is the woman for whose whereaib- uts they have been seeking in order to discover if she had been the victim of the Anbury murder, and that the photograph published on Monday as that of the missing girl i# the photo of the woman interviewed this evening.