MURDERED GIRI

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 36, 13 February 1939, Page 8

MURDERED GIRI

THE PYJAMA CASE MAN’S CLAIM TO BE A BROTHER (By Telegraph—Press A=.=u.-iation— Copyright] SYDNEY, Feb. 11. The police have received information from a man at Bourke, in the far west of New South Wales, that the murdered pyjama girl whose body is still preserved in formaline at Sydney University was his sister, named Gwen Garland. She was formerly in business in Sydney with a German importer of lingerie, whose photograph along with the girl he still possesses. She went to Albury in 1934 just before her murder was reported in September, 1934. The man said he had refrained from communicating with the police in deference to the wishes of the girl’s parents, but he was now disclosing the secret owing to his having sleepless nights. The police have taken the matter up. but are not very optimistic. The New Sou.h Wales Government is offering £lOOO reward ior information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who murdered an unknown woman on the Albury-Howlong Road, Albury, on September 1. 1934, and a further reward of £5OO will be paid to any person who can supply information establishing the identity of the dead woman. The "pyjama girl" murder case has engaged the attention of police in ail parts of the world, inquiries having been made unceasing!' since the tragedy was discovered. The investigation has been estimated to have cost about £lO,OOO. The bod\ of the young woman was discovered in* a culvert. The head was severely battered, and the lower pari of the body burned. 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.