Albury Murder.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20440, 19 October 1934, Page 6

Albury Murder.

Christchurch Woman Not the Victim.

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, October 18. 'T'HE New Zealand police, in an effort to establish the identity of the victim of the “ pyjama girl murder ” at Albury, have been seeking information of the whereabouts of Margaret or Beryl Cashmere, formerly of Christchurch, following on a statement by a Mrs Lydia Bagley, of Australia, who said she knew the girl in Australia a month before the tragedy. Mrs Bagley also is said to have identified a pair of Chinese silk pyjamas found on the Albury victim as belonging to the girl Cashmere.

A “ Dominion ” reporter to-night interviewed a young married woman, aged twenty-six and a blonde, who said she had been in Christchurch till 1927, when she came to Wellington. She gave her maiden name as Margaret Cashmere. She said she had never been to Australia, had been in Wellington since 1927 and had been married eight months ago. She had been married eight months ago. She had been educated at St Mary’s Convent, Christchurch, till she was about eleven and had later gone to the Woolston, Leeston and Linwood public schools. She had been at school until about 1925 and from then till she left in 1927 had been in domestic service. Out of Touch with Friends. She -explained that she had not kept touch with her friends in Christchurch. Some of them she had not written to for three years or more, and as they did not know her whereabouts they had become concerned and had supplied photographs and information in response to appeals by the police. She did not know whether she had any relations alive or anything that would associate her with Australia. She had made a statement to the police. The police are satisfied that the person interviewed by the “ Dominion ” is the woman whose whereabouts they were seeking in order to discover if she was the victim of the murder.