MURDER MYSTERY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 99, 27 March 1939, Page 7

MURDER MYSTERY.

“PYJAMA GIRL” CASE.

IMPORTANT CLUE.

‘SYDNEY, March 26. The first tangible clue to tlie solution of what is known as theAlbury “Pyjama Girl” mystery is being followed by the police as the result of the discovery in a waterhole of a quantity of women’s clothing which is believed to have belonged to the murdered girl. The drought in the Albury district lowered the water level and a man discovered the bundle but told nobody for nearly a month. Meanwhile rain had fallen and the water had risen again, but the fire brigade pumped the hole to a low level, when further rain occurred. However, the police jumped into the hole where they secured a pair oi shoes which fit the feet of the murdered girl, whose body lias been kept in a formalin bath at Sydney University since she was discovered m September, 1934. The fire brigade will resume pumping to-morrow. The police believe they many find other clothes which would lead to tlie identity of the girl and also discover the revolver with which she was shot. FARMER’S SUICIDE. ANOTHER POSSIBLE LINK. SYDNEY, March 17. The police never give up hope of solving a crime or finding the criminal, and on this principle Sydney detectives are making inquiring in \'» toria which they tlunk may possibly link up with the “pyjama girl murder at Alburv in September, 1934 On March 11 Raymond Cyril White, a farmer, was found dead on the road near Alburv. lie is believed to have shot himseif because he know the police were going to question him about his wife’s death two weeks before. She was burned to death in their car, which overturned and burst into flames half a mile from their home. One of the many strange features about the tragedy was that the bodywork of the car was not destroyed. White, who was cut and bleeding, was found by people who attempted to rescue his wile. It was learned later that on Ills wife’s death White succeeded to proixjrty worth £7OOO and received £IOOO in life insurance. When they traced the source of this property the police discovered that some of it had conic to White’s wife through her sister, and they then became very interested in the death of his sister, who was shot dead eleven years ago while hunting rabbits. They began to suspect White of having first murdered his wife’s sister and then his wife, and used the blazing car to conceal the second crime.

A Sydney detective became interested when he heard of White’s suicide, for White’s body was found near the place where the charred body of the “pyjama girl” was first discovered. Admitting that his inquiry was only a shot in the dark, he has written to the Victorian police asking whether White had employed a young woman on his farm before September, 1934.