PYJAMA MURDER CASE

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1934, Page 11

PYJAMA MURDER CASE

POLICE FOLLOWING NEW CLUE. CHRISTCHURCH GIRL MISSING. Information, of the whereabouts and movements of Margaret Cashmere, or “Beryl” Cashmere, who was educated at a Christchurch convent, and who has not been seen at Christchurch since 1927, is being sought by the police, whose tasK it is .to., discover if she is the. victim of the Albury murder case at Melbourne. All - the broadcasting stations, at the instigation of the Commissioner ,of Police, Mr. W. G. Wohlmann, have asked the public if it could,.to give information concerning the girl which might assist in the investigation. No intelligence has been gained so far. No murder mystery in Australian criminal history has created greater interest than that of the unknown girl, who because of her distinctive night attire has become known as the “Pyjama Girl.” London, Paris, New York, Buenos Aires, South Africa and New Zealand have been supplied with every detail that may help in tracing her identity. - - ■ It is significant that a pair of Chinese silk pyjamas found on the Albury victim have been positively identified as belonging to the girl Cashmere by an Australian woman, Mrs. Lydia Bagley, who knew Miss Cashmere a month before the tragedy.

“Beryl” Cashmere or Cashmore, as she was also known, 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. Sh.e was accompanied by a man to whom she referred as Les or Leo. He was aged about 40 to 45 years. His height was about sft sin, he was stockily built, had fair to reddish hair and complexion, blue eyes, clean shaven, hard-looking hands, which were freckled.. He was dressed in a light grey suit, and he did not wear a hat. He was in possession of grey blue tourer car which, apparently, he used io drive the girl from Sydney to Melbourne. They arrived at Melbourne on August 27. She was' in possession 'of : a suitcase containing silk garments, • including the suit of pyjamas with the worked acrosk the whole front of the jumper, and a lemon-coloured suit of pyjamas with a dragon worked on the front. She was also. in possession of a towel and singlets with “8.C.M.” thereon. On August 27 she left Melbourne for Wangaratta, promising to return and meet Mrs. Bagley that evening, but nothing further was heard of her. She was in constant fear of her male friend,