PYJAMA GIRL MYSTERY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 March 1939, Page 5

PYJAMA GIRL MYSTERY

FIRST TANGIBLE CLUE.

CLOTHES FOUND IN WATERHOLE. t’eicjiraph —»»»-—(. ooynghi SYDNEY, March 26. The first tangible clue to the solution of what is known as the Albury Pyjama girl mystery is being followed oy the police as a result of the discovery in a waterhole of a quantity of women’s clothing which is believed to lave belonged to the murdered girl. The drought in the Albury district nad lowered the water level and a man discovered the bundle but told nobody or nearly a month. In the meantime ain had fallen and the water had ris_n again. The fire brigade pumped the nole to a low level, but further rain occurred.

However, police jumped into the inle where they secured a pair of shoes which fit the feet of the murdered girl, whose body has been kept in .i formalin bath at Sydney University nee she was discovered in September. 1934. The fire brigade will resume jumping tomorrow. . The police believe they may find ,ther clothes which would lead to the discovery of the identity of the girl and the revolver with which she was shot.

The New South Wales Government ras offered £lOOO reward for informaj’on leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who murdered an unknown woman on the Al-oury-Howlong road, Albury, on September 1, 1934, and a further reward of £5OO will be paid to any person who :an supply information establishing the identity of the dead woman. The body of the young woman was discovered in a culvert. The head was severely battered and the lower part of 'he body burnt. A detailed description of the body and also of the pyjamas in which it was clad was circulated throughout Australia and New Zealand. It is believed that the woman was between 22 and 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 he murdered girl was his sister, nam'd Gwen Garland.

The man said he had refrained from communicating with the police in defer-->n”e to the wishes of the girl's parents, but he was new disclosing the secret because Ox his having sleepless nights. The police took the matter up. but w"re not optimistic.

The “pyjama girl" murder case has -mp-aged th” attention of police in all parts of the world, inquiries having been made unceasinglv since the tragedy was discovered. The investigation has been estimated to have cost about £lO 000.