BURWOOD MURDER
MISS SCARFF’S DEATH NO ARREST YET MADE FRUITLESS SEARCH OF SCRUB (Per United Press Association.) Christchurch, June 19. No. arrest has yet been made for the murder of Gwendoline Scarff, found dead in the scrub at Burwood on Wednesday afternoon. It is assumed the murder took place that day but it is stated the police still seek information as to where the girl spent Tuesday night. She left the hotel where she had been staying on Tuesday and 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 twenty police made a 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 the search was for traces of such people. The police however found none. In any case the murderer’s weapon was a motor spanner and the general belief is that the murderer either had a motor car or had the use of one.
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Southland Times, Issue 20208, 20 June 1927, Page 8
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184BURWOOD MURDER Southland Times, Issue 20208, 20 June 1927, Page 8
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