THE ALBURY MURDER

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18529, 16 October 1934, Page 11

THE ALBURY MURDER

IDENTITY OF THE VICTIM POLICE TESTING A REPORT GIRL FROM NEW ZEALAND Recently a woman resident of New* town, Sydney, told the police that she and a girl named Beryl Cashmere, who answered the description of the girl murdered at Albury, New South Wales, visited Albury some weeks before the ■murder. Later she said she saw Miss

I pany. This woman was shown photo- . graphs of the murdered girl, and posif lively identified her as Miss Cashmere, but detectives state that some of her ’ statements did not tally with information in their possession. After a fortnight’s \ inquiries they were still uncertain whether Miss Cashmere even visited , Albury. A message from Albury published in . the Melbourne Argus on October 3 stated that the police there, expressed the opinion that Beryl Cashmere would be found to be the victim of the murder. | It was stated that it has been proved j that the girl, accompanied by a Mrs. > Bagley, of Newtown, Sydney, went to Al bury from Wangaratta toward the end 1 of July or early in August, and that 1 they tried to obtain. employment in . Albury through a registry office. j VISIT TO REGISTRY OFFICE l Mrs. Moody, owner of the registry, • stated to detectives that the two women t called upon her early in August and i Bought employment. She found a posit tiou for Mrs. Bagley, but the woman would not accept it. The girl signed 1 the i registry-book as Beryl Cashmere, Mrs. 1 Moody said, but she had not heard of her 3 since. She remembered her u» a short, 1 dark-haired girl, wearing a hat, Mrs. 1 Bagley told detectives that she was t almost positive that Miss Cash'lnere t answered the description of the murdered • girl. f f Strands of the dead girl’s hair were r shown to a woman hairdresser at Albury, r who said that although the ends had 5 been treated with peroxide, which had ; turned them blonde, the hair closer to the i roots was distinctly brunette. Miss . Cashmere is said to be brunette, s • The Christchurch Sun says:—“Detec- • tives have proved that Maig&ret (or - ‘Beryl’) Cashmere attended convent ( schools in this district, and their in- ■ -quirks have led them to> the point of the gifl’s departure for Wellington and her 3 stay there for a period. A girl of pleas--1 ing personality, she is supposed to have been in the habit of changing her Christian name, and even her surname, though there was no substantial reason why she

should do so. ARRIVAL IN AUSTRALIA “ ‘Beryl’ Cashmere or Cashmore arrived in Australia from New Zealand, and on August 21 at Sydney mentioned that she had been brought up in a convent in New Zealand the name of which sounded like ‘Newhaven,’ She was accompanied by a man. . . He was in possession of a grey blue tourer car which, apparently, he used to drive the girl Cashmore or Cashmere from Sydney

to Melbourne. They arrived at Melbourne on August 27. “The girl was in possession of a suitcase containing silk garments, including the suit of pyjamas with the peacock worked across the wholo front of the jumper, and a lemon-colored suit of pyjamas, with a dragon worked on the front. She was also in possession of a towel and singlets with ‘B.C.M-.’ thereon. On August 27 she left Melbourne for Wangflratta, promising to return and meet Mrs, Bagley that evening, but nothing further was heard of her.”