WOMAN’S BODY FOUND

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 67, 23 March 1929, Page 5

WOMAN’S BODY FOUND

HANDS TIED BEHIND BACK AND FACE distorted

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FAMILY.

WIFE OF NEW ZEALANDER.

SYDNEY, March 22

A gruesome discovery was made on a flowerbed in Hyde which is situated in the centre, of the city, fo-uay. A woman's dead body was found with her hands tied behind her back, her features were distorted and a wound over her left eye. The city coroner viewed, the body before the removal.

A postmortem examination revealed that the woman had been strangled or smothered overnight. She was identified as Vera Stirling, with a number of aliases, who regularly slept in the parks.

The police express the opinion that, the woman was probably outraged and then murdered.

Another ghastly discovery was made in a different part of the city when two newly horn babies, a boy and a girl, both dead, were found in a garbage tin.

METHYLATED SPIRITS VICTIM.

(Received 9.5 a.ra.)

SYDNEY, This Day,

Vera Stirling is believed to have boon a member of a well connected English family and the wife of a New Zealand sea captain. Associates described her as a cultured woman, but a victim of methylated spirits. There was no evidence that the woman was outraged, but the police i are certain she was murdered. —Australian P.A.