POLICE STILL SEARCHING
FOE BTJRWOOD MURDERER
(Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, last night. No arrest lias yet been made for the murder of Gwendoline Scarflj, who was found dead in the scrub at Burwood on Wednesday afternoon. It is assumed that the murder took place that day, but it is stated that the police are still seeking information as to where the girl spent Tuesday night. She left the hotel where she had been staying on Tuesday, deposited her heavy luggage at the tramway depot, and apparently took with her a nightdress and toilet requisites to spend the night elsewhere. To-day a party of 20 police made a thorough search of the scrub at the scene of the murder, but without finding anything likely to help the investigations. Occasionally men have camped in the scrub for days or weeks, and a search was made for traces of such people. The police, however,, found none.
The murderer’s weapon was a motor spanner, and the general belief is that the murderer cither hud a motor car or had the use of one.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16371, 20 June 1927, Page 4
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