ANOTHER MYSTERY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 156, 27 March 1920, Page 6

ANOTHER MYSTERY

WOMAN "FOUND. IN THE HARBOUR MYSTERIOUS INJURY FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED "The peculiar nature of the disfigurement has completely'baffled the layman, and the doctors are noiv holding a postmortem examination," said Superintendent. Norwood, of Police Headquarters, . last evening, when spoken to in" regard to the body of a woman found floating in the harbour in the moriiins. As the captain of the t'atcena was taUiiiir the vessel to Hie Evnns B.a« Slip ' at 8.3(1 a.m. yesterday, he noliwil tho body of a woman floating in the harbour oil' Fipitea Point, and on arrival at the slip ho communicated the knowledge to the wharf police. The body whs recovered, and was, subsequently identified as that of Eliza .lane Ilebbend, wife of Charles Ambrose Hebbcml, dyer, of Kent Terrace. The police state that the deceased left her home on Thursday afternoon, and failed to return at night. The b'v)\- was'removed to the morgue. The disfigurement—a wound—is some- | what extraordinary, and the theory was advanced, that, it *was causal by a bullet. This; however, is not accepted by the. police. The wound enters the left check near tho ear, and another wound is apparent near the mouth, and-it appears that whatever instrument caused the openings it passed, b?tween the cheek and the jawbone. The police havs a strong suspicion that the woman has been done to death; and' will b? glad to receive information, regarding her movements from Miyone. who may have seen her since mid-lay on Thursday. .No.time has yet been fixed for the inquest.