PYJAMA GIRL MURDER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4405, 16 October 1934, Page 3

PYJAMA GIRL MURDER.

CHRISTCHURCH GIRL POSSIBLE VICTIM.

Information of the whereabouts and movements of Margaret Cashmere, or “Beryl” Cashmere, who was- educated at a Christchurch convent, and who has not been seen in Chrristchurch since 1927, is being sought by the police, whose task it is to discover if she is the victim of the Aubury murder case in Melbourne. It is significant that a pair of Chinese silk pyjamas found on the Alburv victim have been positively identified as belonging to the girl Cashmere by an Australian woman, Mrs Lydia Bagiev, who (knew Miss Cashmere a month before the tragedy. “Beryl” Cashmere, or Cashmqrc, as she was also known, arrived in Australia from New Zealand and on August 21, at Sydney, mentioned that she had been brought up in a convent in New Zealand, the name of which sounded like “Newhnvcn." She was accompanied by a man to whom she referred as Lcs or Leo. He was aged about 40 or 15 years. Ilis height, was about sft. sin., lie was stockily built, had fair to reddish hair, and complexion; blue eyes, clean shaven, hard-looking hands, which were freckled. lie was dressed in a light grey suit, and he did not wear a. hat. He Avas in possession of a grey blue tourer car which, apparently, lie used to drive the girl from Sydney to Melborne. They arrived at Melbourne on August 27.

She Avas in possession of a suitcase containing silk garments, including the suit .of pyjamas Avith the peacock Avoiked across the whole front of the jumper, and a lemon-coloured suit of pyjamas, Avith a dragon worked on the front. She Avas also in possession of a toAvek and singlets with “8.C.M.” thereon.

On August. 27 she left Melbourne for Wangaratta, promising to return and meet- Mrs Bagiev that evening, but nothing further Avas heard of her. She, was in constant fear of her male friend.