KAIKOURA MYSTERY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1939, Page 8

KAIKOURA MYSTERY

DISCOVERY or WOMAN'S

POLICE INVESTIGATIONS.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, July 21

There are no further developments in the police inquiry into the discovery of a woman's body on Taratuhi beach, two miles north of the Public Works camp at Claverley, from which Mrs Harriet Jane Patience disappeared on October 4 last year.

The date of the inquest has not yet been fixed, according to Superintendent S. Rawle, of the Christchurch Police Force, who is at present in Kaikoura, where the body has been taken.

A party of detectives from Christchurch, including Sen'c-r-Sergeant J. Bickerdike, who was recalled from annual leave, has gone to Kaikoura. Mr Bickerdike was in charge of an extensive search for Mrs Patience last year.

BODY IN CHRISTCHURCH.

IDENTIFICATION DIFFICULT.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.

' The partly decomposed body of a woman which was found on Taratuhi Beach, two miles north of the Public Works Department camp at Claverly, on Thursday, has been brought to Christchurch, and is now in the morgue at the Public Hospital. Dr. Pearson, pathologist at the hospital. is making an examination of the body in view cf a suggestion that it might bo lhat of Mrs Harriet Jane Patience, who disappeared on October 4 from the Public Works camp at Claverly.

The police asked Arthur. John Patience, husband of the missing woman, to view the body. Owing to decomposition cf the features, he was unable to identify the body definitely as that of his wife.