TAMAKI MYSTERY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22132, 11 June 1935, Page 10

TAMAKI MYSTERY

POLICE INQUIRY CONTINUED BODY STILL UNIDENTIFIED Tho mystery surrounding the death of tho young woman whose body was found in the Tamaki River at Pamwfre on June 2 is proving particularly difficult to solve, and the police are faced with ail equally difficult task in endeavouring to trace the missing To Puke girl, Miss Mary Elizabeth Raymond. The body remains unidentified, and no statement has yet been made as to tho cause of death.

After a thorough inquiry, detectives have succeeded in tracing tho origin of tho bundle of clothing that was seen by two boys in the river abovo the Panmure bridge. It has been definitely established that the clothing was in no way connected either with the dead girl or with Miss Raymond, but that it was tied up and thrown into the Panmure Basin on Anzac Day. The clothing was thrown into tho water as a simple method of disposing of it. Constables were engaged yesterday in a search of the foreshore near Buckland's Beach, in the hope that any clothing belonging to tho dead girl might have been cast ashore by the rounh seas at the week-end. The police party was unable to use a dinghy yesterday, but the shore-line was followed for a considerable distance without any clue being found. It is stated by the police that no arrangements have yet been made ior the interment of the body.