ALBURY MURDER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21935, 19 October 1934, Page 12

ALBURY MURDER

IDENTIFYING VICTIM POLICE SEARCH FOR WOMAN DISCOVERED AT WELLINGTON [by* TELEGRAPH; —I'll ESS ASSOCIATION] WE LL IN* GTOX, Th ursd a y Id an effort to establish the identity of the girl who was murdered at Albury, Australia, the New Zealand police have been seeking information of (lie whereabouts of Margaret, or Beryl, Cashmere, formerly 'of <? Christchureh. This action followed a statement by Mrs. Lydia Bagley, of Australia, who said she knew a Miss Cashmere in Australia a month before the tragedy. Mrs. Bagley is also said to have identified a pair of Chinese silk pyjamas found on the Albur.v victim as belonging to Miss Cashmere. A Dominion reporter to-night interviewed a married woman, aged 26 and blonde, who said her maiden name was Margaret Cashmere. She said she had been in Christehureli until 1927, when she came to Wellington. She had never been to Australia. She was married eight months ago. The woman said she was educated at St. Mary's Convent, Christchureh, until she was about 11 years of age, and had later gone to Woolston, Leeston and Linwood schools. She was at school until about 1925, and from then until she left Christchureh she had been in domestic service. She said she had not kept touch with her friends in Christchureh. Some of them she had not written to for three years or more, and as they did not know her whereabouts they had become concerned and had supplied photographs and information in response to appeals by the poliee. She did not know whether siie had any relations alive, or anything that would associate her with Australia. She had made a statement to the police. The police are satisfied that the person interviewed this evening is the woman whoso whereabouts they were seeking.According to Mrs. Bagley " Beryl " Cashmere, or Cashmore, as she was also known, arrived in Australia from New Zealand, and on August 21, at Sydney, she mentioned that she had been Drought up in a convent in New Zealand, the name of which sounded like " Newhaven." She was accompanied by a man to whom she referred as Les, or Leo. He was aged about 40 to 45 years. The man was in possession of a greyblue tourer car, in which apparently he used to drive the woman from Sydney to Melbourne. They arrived at Melbourne on August 27. She was said to have been in possession of a suitcase containing silk garments, including a suit of pyjamas with a peacock worked across the whole front of the juniper, and a lemon-coloured suit of pyjamas with a dragon worked on the front. She was also in possession of a towel and singlets with "8.C.M." marked on them. On August 27 the woman left Melbourne for Wangaratta, promising to return and meet Mrs. Bagley that evening, but nothing further was heard of her. She was said to be in constant fear of her male friend.