DITTON MARSH MYSTERY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19270, 6 September 1924, Page 9

DITTON MARSH MYSTERY

REMAINS NOT . YET IDENTIIIED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ■ LONDON, September 4. (Received Sept. 5, at 9 p.m.) Scotland Yard has not yet'succeeded in identifying the womans remains which were found at Ditton Marsh on September 2, but the detectives are seeking a mysterious man who, it is believed, will Tte able’ to throw light on the puzzle. ■ ’ ' Sir Bernard Spilsbury (Home Office pathologist) is of opinion that the leg picked ' up at Wimbledon Common belonged to the same body as the remains, the sawn portions fitting accurately.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

It was reported from London a few days ago that Scotland Yard was confronted with a new mystery arising out of the discovery under a bush at Ditton Marsh in Surrey of a sack containing a decomposed and dismembered human body, parts of which are missing. The bones appeared to have been sawn. The sesx had not been determined, but it was thought to be a woman. The detectives were Uncertain whether the discovery was associated with the finding of a' woman’s right leg wrapped up in a parcel on Wimbledon Common in April last.