RIVERBANK MYSTERY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 August 1923, Page 7

RIVERBANK MYSTERY.

I * . I. . ■ WOMAN'S HAT AND SHOES. BROWNING FATALITY PEAEEIX The finding of a woman's relour fiatt on the river bank, opposite Spi«rStreet, by an Aramoho resident late omSaturday afternoon also led to the <tfir~covery of a wionioa's shoe at the water*. e«£ge., and caused the matter to be reported to the police (says tke WaogaKuiGhromcle)." Constable. J. MeMuHan proceeded to* the locality 3 and made axi - extended search; with the result that when t&<*tide had fallen the companion shoe wasfound further out, a'so'in the grass otk. the bank above a cony of Zaae Gray*& book "-Desert of Wheat," (witti A. B Bawtrey, Hawera, 23/9/22/' written: on the first leaf. Yesterday the local noliee communicated with the police at Haw«ra, but nobody of the name of Bawtrev can t» located there* The hat found o» Saturday was of s* good kind, and evidently had not beert greatly \v«rn. The shoes were glacoi . kid, size & and had been half-soled. So far nobody has been reported ast missing, and the local police "would lx* glad of any communication in that respect. : A further search was to be made in. the locality to-day, where the presentfeeyidcnce has raised fears of -another river fatality.