THE PYJAMA GIRL MYSTERY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4407, 20 October 1934, Page 3

THE PYJAMA GIRL MYSTERY.

DEAD GIRL’S IDENTITY STILL A MYSTERY.

NOT MISS CASHMERE,

Six Aveeks have passed since a girl Avas murdered at A 1 bury, on the border of Ncav South Wales and Victoria, and the riddle of the victim’s identity is as great as ever it Avas'. This has led to a suggestion in many quarters that the crime Avas indeed a “perfect” one, but the police refuse to subscribe to that idea. Although their intensive investigations have so far led them; noAvliere, the detectives still express confidence that success will be theirs in the long run, though they are compelled to admit that each day’s delay makes the task of finding the murderer more difficult. Since September 1 detectives and police in every State and in Ncav Zealand haA-o been seeking the name of the girl Avhose face, except for one Around over the left eye. is still intact. Measures unheard of previously in Australia have been taken to learn the name of the girl. For the first time it was decided to preserve the body and to allow many people to see it. The body Avas taken to Sydney last Aveek nii(J it is noAV being examined by specialists at the Sydney University in the hope that they Avill at least be able to decide thenntionality of the victim. For the first time, too, teeth Avere extracted from the body, and dental charts and moulds Avere made of the mouth. Scores of dentists in three States studied the photographs of the dental mould and compared the dental chart Avith their oavii records. The result has been nil.

In four AA'eeks more than GSO missing girls haA - e been traced in various parts of Australia. Nearly 1000 people have vieAyed the body and the post mortem photograph has been slioAvn to 0,000 people in the Alburv district. The same photograph has been circulated all oa 7 - er Australia. Scores of hotels and laundries and boardinghouses have been visited in an endeavour to trace the towel Avhieli had been bound around the dead girl’s head. The detectives have intervieAved many wheat and potato merchants to determine the brand of bag that was used to em'elop the body. They haA r e also done their utmost to trace the origin of the canary coloured w.jamas Avhich the dead girl Avas wearing.

EA 7 ery unclaimed letter lying at the post office at Alburv and in the post offices in the surrounding district, has been examined. In every direction the detectives hav r e drawn a blank. As a result of intenswe investigation one clue has been proved of no value. It Avas that the pyjama girl was Miss Margaret (or Beryl) Cashmere, formerly of Christchurch. Miss Cashmere has been located in Wellington where she is now residing having married and settled, doAvn. She states that, she never visited Australia after leaving the South Island. The police are quite satisfied that- Miss Cashmere is the person for Avhom they were searching in folhnving up the supposed Australia clue to the identity of the pyjama girl. It is possible cA’en yet, however, that the murdered girl might be a Ncav Zealander for the police are constantly receiving information of persons avlio have not been seen or heard of for a, number of years. In Wellington alone about a dozen names have been handed in but in each case so far as is knoAvn, it has been proved that none of them is the victim.