PYJAMA GIRL MURDER

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 112, 24 April 1936, Page 4

PYJAMA GIRL MURDER

Reward for Identification of Victim NEW SOUTH WALES MYSTERY A public notice has been affixed at tho Hastings Police Station announcing that £2uo is being offered for the identification of the body concerned in what is familiarly known as the “Pyjama Girl Murder.” As far as can bo ascertained this is the first occasion on which a reward has been offered for such a purpose, the longest serviced officer in the Hastings police force being unable to recall a parallel in New Zealand.

'The notice states that on September 1, 1931, an unknown woman was found murdered on the Albury-Howlong road, near Albury, N.S.W., and up to the present the body has not been identified. In addition to the i eward of £5OO offered by the Government for such information as will lead to the apprehension and conviction of the person or persons who committed the murder, a reward of £2OO will be paid to any person who may supply information which will lead to tho identification of the body. The description <of the body is given as follows: —From 22 to 27 years of age; height not more than Cl’t. lin.; slim to medium build; body well formed and proportioned; light-brown hair, which has been peroxided or bleached; blue-grey eyes, plucked eyebrows ; small superficial scar of back of basil phalanx of right middle finger; believed to be English, or European, rather than Australian extraction; ears are peculiar, part of the edge being imperfect and there is very little, if any, lobe present, the whole giving a very distinctive anil unpleasant shape. There then follows a detailed description of the fillings of the teeth and a description of the mouth. The notice adds that the body was clothed in maize, or light canarycoloured pyjama coat made of Shanghai crepe, which contains a small percentage of artificial silk. Across the front is a Chinese dragon worked in white silk,-- the tail finishing on the left breast. The trousers are made of similar material, but are white with yellow borders around the bottom, with a white Oriental design thereon. Around the head was wrapped a large white towel of Japanese manufacture. On the hem is a laundry mark, which could be deciphered as “R.1.W.,” “R.C.0.,” or “Q.1.W.” The offer of a reward is to remain in force for a period of three months from March 13, 1936.