PYJAMA GIRL CASE

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 7 November 1935, Page 6

PYJAMA GIRL CASE

LENGTHY INVESTIGATION. MOST BAFFLING MYSTERY. \ SYDNEY, Oct. 30." Although the investigation has cost New South Wales about £IO,OOO, the Criminal Investigation Branch in Sydney is relentlessly following all clues likely to assist in the identification of the “Pyjama Girl,” whose charred body was found in a culvert near Albury on September 1, 1934, and who is still unidentified. The detectives believe that once they know her name, they will clear up the crime in a matter of days. ■ x ~ “The money has been well spent,. stated a high police official. “If it cost ten times that much to apprehend the murderer, the amount would be expended on a very worthwhile object. It is a crime which must be cleared up, and we intend to keep going until the mystery is solved.” A dozen detectives have been employed at various times in the sifting of clues. Practically all the clues. have been followed to their end, and on each occasion the police have found themselves just where they started. But. they still have information not disclosed. There are some aspects of the case which officials, even now, will not discuss.

SEARCH FOR. 14 MONTHS. Fourteen months have elapsed since the body of the slim girl in yellow pyjamas was found. The huge cost of the inquiries includes wages of special men wiio have done nothing else but search for the assailant since the date of the murder, and the printing of circulars and photographs, which have been sent overseas in thousands. Every police station and every policeman in New South Wales has been supplied with half-a-dozen separate photographs including close-ups, of the murdered girl, whose peculiarly-shaped ears, in particular, have been photographically’ reproduced. Excepting when some other urgent case has required his attention, Detec-tive-Sergeant Mcßae, chief of Sydney murder investigators, has been permanently employed on the “p? 9 jama girl” mystery, and another detective, with a thorough knowledge of business methods, has been engaged for 12 months solely on the correspondence section of the inquiry. ANY INFORMATION WELCOMED. Even now the detectives frequently receive letters from persons who think they can assist. They. have not so far received through correspondence any direct information, but they nevertli.eless welcome letters irom nny part of the world, for they feel that it is m this way that eventually the vital clue will be received Stamps and travelling expenses, mainly in the three eastern States of Australia, have accounted for much of the expenditure The body of the murdered girl still lies in a bath of formalin in a room in the medical school at the Sydney University. Occasionally the room is opened to admit somebody taken there / by the police in the hope of establishing identity, for, though the expectation is fading, the police have by no means given up hope. Mysteries a linos * as difficult have been solved m the past. __________