ALBURY MURDER

Inangahua Times, 19 October 1934, Page 3

ALBURY MURDER

WOMAN INTERVIEWED. BY DOMINION POLICE. (Per United Press Assn.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. The New Zealand Police, In an effort to establish the identity of the victim of the pyjama girl murder at Albury, have been seeking information of the whereabouts of Margaret or Beryl Cashmere, formerly of Christchurch, following on a statement by a Mrs. Lydia Bagley, of Australia, who said she knew Miss Cashmere in Australia a month before the tragedy. Mrs. Bagley is also said to have identified the pair of Chinese pyjamas found on the Albury victim, as belonging to the girl Cashmere. A “Dominion” reporter, interviewed a young married woman, aged 26,

• a blonde who said she had been in Christchurch till 1927, when she came to Wellington. She gave her maiden name as Margaret Cashmere, .and. said she had never been to Australia. she had been in Wellington since 1927 and had been married eight months ago.! She had been educated at ;St. Mary’s I Convent, Christchurch, till she was| about 11 and had later gone to the Woolston, Leeston and Linwood public schools. She had been at school until about 1925 and from then till she left in 1927, had been in domestic ser-

She explained that she had not kept in touch with her friends in Christchurch. 'Some of them she had hot I written to for three years or more, as I they did not know her whereabouts j they had become concerned and had) ’supplied a photograph and informa-1 tion in response to appeals by the I police. She did not know whether she had any relations alive, or anything that would associate her with Australia. She had made a statement to th 9 police. MYSTERY GIRL. WELLINGTON, Last Night. The police are satisfied that the person interviewed by the Dominion is TTe woman whose whereabouts they j ■vCere seeking, to discover if she was the victim of the murder.

They ffeclare that the photograph published in Monday’s Dominion of the missing girl was - < i the woman seen this evening.