“PYJAMA GIRL”

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20433, 25 February 1938, Page 7

“PYJAMA GIRL”

A MURDER MYSTERY IDENTITY OF THE VICTIM ■ A MOST PROMISING CLUE ! t'pued Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright J MELBOURNE. Feb. 24 The detectives who are still engaged in investigating the " pyjama girl ” ( murder case have established contflct j w-ith Mr C. W. Lunch, principal of the ! Lynch family of bellringers, who says ! he is practically certain, according to ' photographs shown to him of the dead j girl, that her name was Nancy Ling, | of San Francisco, who, in 1934 came ' to Australia with the magician 44 Carter ' the Great ” and toured Tasmania, Vic- j toria and New South Wales. Mr Lynch, who was with the com- j pany, left it. in Tasmania. The com- ! pany then toured the East and dis- ; banded after leaving Singapore. Car- j ter died in South Africa. The police regard Mr Lynch’s story j as a most promising clue and have 1 invited him to come to Sydney to view I the girl’s body, which is preserved in a glass case in the University Medical School. The body of a young woman was found in a culvert on the Lowlong Road, about 4 4 miles from Albury, New South Wales, on September 2, 1934. The head was severely battered, and the lower part of the body burned. It is believed that the woman was between 22 and 27 years of age, and that she was of slim to medium build. IDENTITY NOT PROVED NEWSPAPER’S INQUIRY Limed Press assu.—Elec. Tel Copyrigm j (Received Feb. 25, 1.30 p.m.) ; SYDNEY, Feb. 25 The Daily Telegraph says investiga- j tions indicate beyond doubt that Nancye Lingg correct spelling! was not tlie pyjama girl. The Telegraph’s investigations proved that Miss Lingg -booked at a Sydney hotel on July 29, 1934, and checked out on September 20, 1934, 25 days after tlie body of the pyjama girl was found.