MURDER MYSTERY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1941, Page 5

MURDER MYSTERY

REVIVED IN AUSTRALIA IDENTITY OF “PYJAMA GIRL.” SAID TO BE ESTABLISHED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, November 16. What is known as the “Pyjama Girl Mystery” has been revived by a claim by Mrs Rutledge, a resident on the south coast of New South Wales, that the murdered girl was her daughter, Anna Philomena Morgan, by a previous marriage, and that she went missing about the time the pyjama girl’s mutilated and partially burned body was discovered beneath a water culvert near Albury in 1934, since when it has become Australia’s greatest unsolved crime. Detectives preserved the body in a formalin bath at the University for’ six years in the hope that somebody would establish its identification. Mrs Rutledge’s claim is backed by a Sydney specialist, who declares that the dead girl’s features and other characteristics, when compared with a photograph of Miss Morgan, definitely establish its identity. The police challenge this and insist that they have traced Mrs Rutledge’s daughter to Queensland. The matter has now entered still another phase. A representative of the Sydney “Daily Mirror” ascertained that the body had been removed from the University. The police admit that they have it but refuse to disclose its whereabouts. Mrs Rutledge, it is understood, intends to apply to the Supreme Court calling on the police to deliver the body to her.. A heavy reward is attached to identification .of the body and information likely to lead to the apprehension of the murderer.