A GRUESOME DISCOVERY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22498, 16 February 1935, Page 18

A GRUESOME DISCOVERY

DECOMPOSED BODY FOUND IDENTITY A MYSTERY (Per United Press Association) HASTINGS, February 15. The' discovery of a very much decomposed ferqale body was’ made this morning in a creek near the junction of the Onepu and Raukawa roads, about 20 miles south ,of Hastings. The police and a doctor are at present on the spot conducting investigations. The police state that none of the stations in this district have any report that a woman is missing. ' A medical examination has definitely established that the woman was white, and not a Maori, as was at first believed, and it is likely that the body had been in the water, for some two or three weeks. It was clothed in a red-coloured-dress of light, material, brown silk stockings, two linen petticoats, and black shoes with a single cross strap. The . dead woman was apparently unmarried. She was five feet four inches in height, and of stocky build. The police appear more or less satisfied that she was a stranger to this district, and most certainly did not belong to the neighbourhood in which her body was found. She was evidently 30 years’ of affe. The district in which the discovery was made is remote from all main and even secondary traffic roads.