THE ALBURY MURDER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22397, 19 October 1934, Page 10

THE ALBURY MURDER

IDENTITY OF VICTIM UNAVAILING EFFORTS BY POLICE. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 18. The New Zealand police, in an effort to establish the identity of the victim of the “ pyjama girl ” murder at Albury, have been seeking information of the whereabouts of Margaret, or Beryl, Caghmere, formerly of Christchurch, following on a statement by a Mrs Lydia Bagley, of Australia, who said she knew 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 Albury victim as belonging to the girl Cashmere. A Dominion reporter to-night interviewed a young married woman, aged 26, who said she had been in Christchurch till 1927, when she came to Wellington. She gave her maiden name as Margaret Cashmere, and said she had never been to Australia. She had been in Wellington since 1927 And had been married eight months agjp. She had been educated at St. Mary’s Convent, Christchurch, till she was about 11 and had later gone to the Woolston, Leeston and Linwood Public Schools. She had been at school until about 1925, and from their till she left in 1927 had been in domestic service. She explained that she had not kept touch with her friends in Christchurch. 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 the appeals by the police. She did not know, whether she had any relations alive or anything that would associate her with Australia. She had made a statement to the police.