Pyjama Girl Mystery Recalled

Northern Advocate, 15 November 1941, Page 2

Pyjama Girl Mystery Recalled

(Rec. 1 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. What is known as the “Pyjama Girl,” mystery has been revived by a claim by Mrs Rutledge, a resident of the south coast of New South Wales, that the murdered girl was her daughter, Anna Philomena Morgan, by a previous marriage, and that she was missed about the time the “Pyjama Girl’s” mutilated and partially burned body was discovered beneath a water culvert near Albury in 1934. Since then this has become Australia’s greatest unsolved crime. Detectives have preserved the body in a formalin bath at the university for six years, in the hope that somebody would establish its identification. Specialist Backs Claim Mrs Rutledge’s claim is backed by a Sydney specialist, who declares that the dead girl’s features and other characteristics, when compared with a photograph of Miss Morgan, definitely establish the identity of the body. This the police challenge, insisting that they traced Mrs Rutledge’s daughter to Queensland. The matter has now entered still another phase, as a representative of the Sydney “Daily Mirror’’ has ascertained that the body has been removed from the university. The police admit that they have it. but refuse to disclose its whereabouts. Habeas Corpus Mrs Rutledge, it is understood, intends to apply in the Supreme Court for an order calling on the police to deliver the body to her. A heavy reward is attached to the identification of the body and information likely to lead to the apprehension oT the murderer.