DRESS CLOTHES FOUND
ORIENTAL BAY MYSTERY SEARCH BY THE POLICE [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] WELLINGTON, Sunday Mystery surrounds the discovery in Grass Street, Oriental Bay, on Sunday morning of a dress suit and other articles of a man's evening apparel. Ihere was nothing among the clothing by which its owner could be identified, and up until late on Sunday night 110 ono had been reported to the police as missing. The discovery was made by a resident of Grass Street about 8.30 a.m. at a spot about 200 yards from the beach at Oriental Bay. The articles included the trousers and vest of a dress suit, a shirt, and a pair of patent leather shoes. The only article missing from the suit was the coat. Believing that tragedy might lie behind tho mystery, members of the police force made an extensive but fruitless search along the waterfront to-day.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22463, 6 July 1936, Page 10
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