CLAVERLEY MYSTERY
POLICE OFFICERS ACTIVE VISIT TO KAIKOURA PATHOLOGIST'S REPORT (Pur Tress Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Police inquiries into the Claverley mystery took a new turn yesterday when Superintendent S. Rawle ana Chief-Detective W. 11. Dunlop left by car for Kaikoura. There they joined 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 at Kaikoura yesterday afternoon. The post-mortem work on the body of Mrs. Patience, who disappeared from the public works camp at Claverley on October 4 last year, is being continued by Dr. R. B. Pearson, pathologist at the Christchurch Public Hospital. It is believed lie has dcATinined the cause of death and that the renewed police activity yesterday was the result of his first report.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20001, 28 July 1939, Page 4
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148CLAVERLEY MYSTERY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20001, 28 July 1939, Page 4
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