INNER HARBOR MYSTERY.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11560, 13 June 1900, Page 4

INNER HARBOR MYSTERY.

Sib,— Your correspondent, J. B. JohnBtone, evidently knows something about this case, judging by his letters, and if so, I think it is his bounden duty to give to the police any information he may have on the subject. It is plain, from all the circumstances of the finding of the body, that the unfortunate girl oould never have been swept in from the outer harbor, for by no stretch of imagination can it be supposed for one moment that the girl jumped from a vessel in the bay, with all her olothing missing. She must have been carried down by the Tutaeknri river to have landed off Long Point, whioh is in a direct line from the mouth of the Tutaekuri river. The Ngaruroro river seeks its outlet into the sea at Clive. The only two rivers flowing into the inner harbor are the Tutaekuri and the Esk from Petane. Now, has it ever struok those interested to make inquiries along the towns and villages through which the Tutaekuri flows ? If any girl were misßing surely someone must know something about her, or there would be some link by whioh her identity could be ultimately traced. It iB obvious that if the girl had drowned herself she would at least have kept her stockings on, or a portion at least of her clothing. It is impossible to think that any girl meditating self-destruction would first of all strip herself stark naked and then jump into the cold waters. There are few suoh cases, I venture to say, on record. If she was stripped of all her clothing and then thrown in by someone anxious to get rid of her, knowing the girl's condition, then there is big scope for the display of some Scotland Yard detective acumen. Have all the links been pieced together? I don't think so.— l am, &c, Vacuna. June 12fch, 1900.