SURGICAL SKILL SOLVES A MYSTERY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 27, 14 January 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)

SURGICAL SKILL SOLVES A MYSTERY.

Th? Berlin correspondent of the I “Central News’’ says:—A mystery I which has baffled the police authoritie;' | here for some days has Ixsen solved, thanks to a clue furnished by the anatomical skill of a surgeon. > At the end of lost month the body of a voung woman was recovered from the Spre?. The circumstances pointed to murder, and the elucidation of the problem was rendered the more difficult at the outset by the fact that the face was only in part preserved. The authorities. th< ugh possessing information regarding a number of young women reported as missing, were unable to secure any identification which would give them a starting point for their investigations. j Surgical science came to the aid of the police, a police surgeon reconstructing the features. Th s done, a con- | stable, who; beat includes the Hum- I boklt Harbour, recogri ed the body a; i -hat of one of the homeless creature. ■alio nightly use the hirbour sheds as | refuges. Now three men. two of them Mermen, living on river barges, and I th® other the night watchman of the goods y?r-l of the harbour, an u de? arrest.’ They arc held in consequence of the statement of another cf the city's outcasts to th? effect that she and the girl whose body has been discovered had taken shelter in the night watchman's hut and had accompanied him on board a brrrge on which were thre? ether men. There were struggles between the men and the girl, whose i cries for help were smothered by a pillow.

This gagging caused the girl’s d°o.tb by s-uffo: ntion, mid then her body was seat: up in a sack, after everything Jikelv to lead to identification had been removed, and thrown into the water. The second girl was biund over to silence bv threats of mnrder should sli-’ communicate with the police-