AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

VCSIKALIAN AND N.Z. OABL2 ASSOCIATION. BODY IN A SACK. PERTH, July 21. A case of suspected murder was revealed at Kromantic when a sack containing the body of a stylishly dressed young woman was found floating in the harbour by two fishermen, who reported to the police. The body was found to be inside two sacks tied with a rope. It was fully dressed and was that of a woman seemingly about twenty-five years of age with dark brown bobbed hair. The remains were in an advanced stage of decomposition and the face appeared to show traces of a violent blow above the nose, but a post mortem revealed that the brain was uninjured. The doctor said that death was not due. to drowning, but might have been caused by suffocation. By appearances the girl had possibly been dead a fortnight.

The police have been adivsed that Ruby Lee Wood, aged twenty-one, married, Ims been missing from her home since the thirteenth July, when she left to go to work at her husband’s fruit shop at Subiaee. The missing woman and her husband lived with her people, but the relations between her husband and parents were strained. When she failed to return home the parents asked no questions, hut, later reported the matter to the police.

The father will l;e permitted to see the body to-day as from the description he believes it to lie that of his daughter.