CLUE TO PYJAMA GIRL MYSTERY

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 155, 27 March 1939, Page 9

CLUE TO PYJAMA GIRL MYSTERY

Women’s Clothing Found In Waterhole (Received March 26. 10.36 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 26. The first tangible clue to the solution of what is known as the Albury pyjama girl mystery is being followed by the police as a result of the discovery in a waterbole of a quantity of women’s clothing which is believed to have belonged to the murdered girl. The drought in the Albury district had lowered the water level and a man discovered the bundle but told nobody for nearly a month. In the meantime rain had fallen and the water had risen again. The lire brigade pumped the hole to a low level, but further rain occurred. However, police jumped into the hole, where they secured a pair of shoes which fit the feet of the murdered girl, whose body has been kept in a formalin bath at Sydney University since she was discovered in .September, 1934. The fire brigade will resume pumping tomorrow. The police believe they ffiay find other clothes which would lead to the discovery of the identity of the girl and the revolver with which nhe was shot.

The New South Willes Government has offered £lOOO reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who murdered an unknown woman on the Al-bury-Howlong road, Albury, on September 1, 1934, and a further reward of £5OO will be paid to any person who can supply information establishing the identity of the dead woman. The body of the young woman was discovered in a culvert. The head was severely bartered anil the lower part of the body burnt. A detailed description of the body and also of the pyjamas in which it was clad was circulated throughout Australia ami New Zealand. It is believed that the woman was between 22 ami 27 years of age and that she was of slim to medium build. Last month the police received Information from a man in Bourke, in the far west of New South Wales, that the murdered girl was his sister, named Gwen Garland. The man said he had retrained from coinniunieiiting with Hie police in deference to Ihe wishes of the girl’s parents; but lie was how disclosing the secret because of his. having sleepless nights 'flic police took the matter up. but were not oplimislic.

Tlie "pyjama girl'’ murder case has engaged Ihe allention of police in all parts of the world, inquiries having been made unceasingly since the tragedy was discovered. The investigation has been estimated to have cost about £10,600.