CLAVERLEY MYSTERY
POLICE ACTIVITY
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, July 27. Police inquiries into the Claverley mystery took a new turn today, when Superintendent S. Rawle and Chief Detective W. H. Dunlop left by car for Kaikoura. There they were joined by Senior-Sergeant J. Bickerdike, who left for the Claverley district immediately after the inquest on Tuesday into the death of Mrs. Harriet Jane Patience.
A conference of the men in "charge of the Claverley mystery was to have been held Kaikoura this afternoon.
Post-morfem work on the body of Mrs. Patience, who disappeared from the Public Works camp at Claverley on October 4 last, is being continued by Dr. Pearson, pathologist at the Cbristchurch Public Hospital. It is believed that he has determined the cause^ of death and that renewed police activity today is the result of his first report. " -
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 24, 28 July 1939, Page 18
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