NURSE SAID SHE SAW MAN LOWER A WOMAN INTO STORM DRAIN

Wanganui Chronicle, 4 May 1948, Page 5

NURSE SAID SHE SAW MAN LOWER A WOMAN INTO STORM DRAIN

Recd. 8.15 p.m. Sydney, May 3 Fifty police carried out a fruitless search last night and today for the body of a woman which a nurse said she had seen being lowered into a storm-water canal.

The search followed a report to the police from the sister in charge i of the Marrickville District Hospital. The nurse claimed that while travelling in an electric train between the suburbs of Sydenham and Marrickville, she saw a man, who appeared to be lowering a body into a ditch. She described the man as wearing a khaki overcoat over his head and shoulders. He was in a stooping position and appeared to be holding the woman horizontally in both arms. It was raining heavily and the nurse could not see the man’s face, but she expressed herself as certain she saw the woman’s legs, on the feet of which were two tan shoes After scrambling for six hours in pitch darkness, amid a maze of rain-; swollen and bush-bound storm-water; channels, the police waited until; dawn to resume search. Mobile searchlights proved useless, as the i rain reduced the beams to a few ! feet. Before the search was postponed again at nightfall today one searcher had suffered a sprained ankle and others had fallen into channels.