v MISSING, WOMAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18456, 20 July 1923, Page 6

v MISSING, WOMAN.

FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED, 11 LATEST SYDNEY MYSTERY, 1 THREE PERSONS DETAIN^) J :■; Gertrude Mabel Heaydon, 26 years' 'A If age, who lived at Piercourt Flats, ManJvv 1 died in a room in Newstead Flats, Beacl 8 Street, Coogee, last October, says a Syj I ney paper. Her death, the police b» 1 Hove, was the result of an illegal opera- i tion. ~ Some day 8 afterwards the bodj I was carted away in a cabin trunk and- * buried in a shed, or garage, probably to | Surry Hills. These are the features of V I ghastly tragedy Detectives Lynch, 1 lick, Allmond, and Jones, and Constalile* I Alexander and Holby, of the North &$. § ney police, aire attempting to unravel % Two, men and Vs:' woman are under deien, 1 tion. / lv " , . , * r . I The Bertha Ooughlan case in Mel'bounii 1 pales into insignificance beside this latest 1 murder. Mrs. Heaydon was a native pi I Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, and ■ wail married in 1919 to Alfred Ernest Heay. § don, a "member of the A.1.F., who is a i commission agent in Sydney. She wail a member of- the W.A.A-G.'s, arid had ft three years jof service in.;Franoe/#ivhe#| she . and Heaydon became acquainted. The? 9 arrived in Sydney on the steamer Main £'i December, 1919. They had one ! child, 18 months old at the time of the death oil) Mrs- Heaydon. She is known ; to havip left Manly .last September, with .the-"i£; ■iehtiqn- of visiting Nurse ,• Hughes, i ■siaci'ffl ■deceased, at Newstead Flat. Beach Road, I Coogee,' where she : occupied a room in if the front,! and on the left-hand side'of i the ground floor. Nurse Hughes was alsj 1 kiaown by the name of Taylor. ' "«,;1 ./Removal of a Box. • The police say that Mrs. HeaydoSjf went to undergo :an illegal operation, Mm that she : died ; a few . days after reachpi|S there, The date :of her death would havri been, somewhere in the vicinity of October 1 2 'j Her body was removed from the "premises about 1) a.m. on the morning of Odoi; I ber 3 in:; a-jmiallv cabin trunk, thepolicsl say,. The trunk i' had an oval lid, anawa»f| probably about 3ft long and 2ft deep, ft was taken, away : in a email bos carl I drawn ; by a bay horse in poor; conditio^ m The' box- at the time was; covered with § the material from a three-cornered ward- J robe, or hanging wardrobe, an they an J sometimes known. -. . , <T "•;:;Jt. was taken in the-direction'of Ml city, and buried in a stable, shed, tfl garage,';probably^: in Surry Hills, which I hat! oeen rented some short time befoiill by'one or, two men. - ,jj The police first received ■an inkling (M the affair;; in October, when ; information! ;came i into their possession that a womaaf had l . died ;' at Coogee, and that : the body} had been carted r away. Inquiries Wisri.| made at the time, but they could find cO record of any woman being reported :as I missing. ''1 Jewellery Recovered. '" | A • few; days ago, " however, it was defiV nitely ■established . that ; it was the body | of Mrs. K Heaydon, and the police no\V j have some of her jewellery- in'their pos- : j session. i She .was never reported /missing] to the police. ' ' -" , - .", ~ •>!;! The later information, re«iived was ik'sf the "form of a loiter from' her '= father, ia¥ Earh'diiie Road, Newcastle-on-Tyne. ' r It; was 1 addressed,. to the InspectorTQeneral.of ? Police, : ; and ; stated ; that fears were : entertained , concerning ' the manner in which,.;;. she hid met her death. As, soon as thii; reached the ; hands • of : the detectives con-;; cerned ithey started " the machinery mb> r ing, and her disappearance synchronise^;l with the death of the woman at : 'Ceo?ei|| ;:; The ; suspicions ,of the people ; ; in ;En£>| land had been aroused in a ' curious man-,j | ;er. ;: ■ The dead ■■;-. woman's sister | a letter toward the end of .last ',. year tijj ! the effect ■ that her sister ;> had died i froffi; heart failure. Her father, however, knew| that she had served in France, and wail I 'a'-;more than ordinarily healthy girl. Hi could not .understand it. Soon, howevefji his daughter in England received anothsf letter from her sister in Australia,' writ- | ten ; some days ; before her death stating;! her: intention of visiting "a; certain nurse. ] There was nothing in the second letter j to indicate that she was suffering front 1 - heart failure, andrit ';. was the discrepancy;] -between the - two . missives that set'. th« j father wondering. ; . ij :-The names of those -'.;:- under --.'detention) are Alfred Ernest : Heaydon. husband .'of the deceased woman; : Nellie -■/■•; Cregt# and Philip Reffly. * - ! . Many 'statements have been taken, sinca ; ; the inquiry was first commenced, hot": during tht* last few days the 'police; haiwj had something to work on, and hav*. been able; to bring their ;inquiries, toi| head. ' m ■ There is a possibility .that, the body.wis.s cut up to 'enable those concerned to fit if;! into a box. ; |