Saw Woman Kneeling In Prayer on Pier

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7084, 5 December 1929, Page 6

Saw Woman Kneeling In Prayer on Pier

WAS IT MRS. BIGGS?

ANONYMOUS LETTER TO • MELBOURNE POLICE,

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Wednesday 9.30 p.m. MELBOURNE, Dec. 4.

The detective office has received an, anonymous letter from a man who say.v he saw a woman, presumably Mrs. -., Biggs, on the night of November 18, kneeling in prayer at the end of the St. Kilda pier. Ho tried to light his pipe, but tho wind was too strong so he sat ’on a seat and watched tho woman; He then left, forgetting the pipe, and on returning for it, he discovered the woman had gone. He concluded the only place to which she could have disappeared was into the sea. He wont homo and told bis wife, but made no complaint to the police. Ho now had every reason to v believe she was Mrs. Biggs, whose body was discovered in "the bay and whose husband returned from Auckland to Melbourne yesterday, in order to be pre-;;. sont at the inquest. The anonymous writer adds: “I cannot possibly be identified with the case, hence my aUfSnymity. ’ > Detectives are of opinion that the writer is sincere and truthful and regret’ that so important a witness is not available for the inquest .