GRIM AUCKLAND FIND

Taranaki Daily News, 3 June 1935, Page 7

GRIM AUCKLAND FIND

WOMAN’S BODY IN WATER

LONG IMMERSION EVIDENT. ROPE TIED AROUND LEGS. IDENTIFICATION DIFFICULTIES. By Telegraph—Press Association, Auckland, Last Night. Men in a boat this afternoon found the badly decomposed body of a woman caught on timber work beneath the Panmure wharf. The body, which was naked, has not been identified. The Auckland police have before tnem the difficult task of identifying the body before the inquiry can be extended, for no report of a missing woman which could be associated with the known facts of the case had been traced at a late hour to-night. A rope about nine feet long of a thin type, such as is often used for clothes lines, was wound about the legs when the body was found. A curious circumstance was that several com sacks, which were apart from the body, were tied to one end of the rope. . ' The features were not distinguishable, The right hand was missing and much of the left had gone. Much of the flesh on the legs and the lower part of the body had also disappeared. It is surmised that the body has been in the water about two months.