Intensive Investigation Of Claverley Mystery

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 175, 27 July 1939, Page 8

Intensive Investigation Of Claverley Mystery

POLICE AND SCIENTISTS AT WORK Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, July 26. Detectives engaged on the Claverley mystery now await the report of the pathologist (Dr. A. B. Pearson) whose examination of the body of Mrs. Harriet Jane Patience will determine the cause of death. With the identification of the body of the woman who was found at Taratuhi beach near Claverley definitely established, the police and scientific inquiry w T ork have been intensified. Dr. Pearson started his examination on Monday but it will be a day or two before he has completed his work and handed over his report to the police. Organs from the body of Mrs. Patience will probably be handed over to the Government analyst in an effort to determine whether there were any traces of poison in the body. Tho pathological and analytical work to be qovered may take days.

In tho meantime elaborate police inquiry work is being carried out. Senior-Sergeant J. Bickerdike, who has been in charge of the Claverley mystery inquiries from the time of tho disappearance of Mrs. Paticnco last October, left by car last night for Claverley. lie was accompanied by Constable A. H. Brown. The ear also carried the Kaikoura district coroner (Mr. W. A. Nelson) who presided at the continuation of the inquiry yesterday afternoon. Arrangements for the funeral of Mrs. Patienco will be held up until tho work of the pathologist has been completed.