OAMARU MYSTERY
STORY OF FALSE BROADCAST Special to the Dally Times OAMARU, Aug. 4. A report attributed to official sources in Christchurch in connection with the police investigations involving the exhumation at Oamaru on July 29 of the body of Mrs Joyce Maysie Morrison, of Enfield, suggests that the bottle recovered from a pond at Enfield was wrapped in a newspaper and enclosed in a tin. , It is stated that the police lnvestigations followed an allegedly false broadcast message whieh caused the immediate return from Auckland to the South Island of a young woman whose home is in Tuatapere, Southland, because of the supposed illness of her father. It is also stated that the police arranged this broadcast message at the request of another young woman. There are no further developments at Oamaru.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26531, 5 August 1947, Page 6
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