NAKED GIRL IN RIVER

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20266, 7 August 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)

NAKED GIRL IN RIVER

Police Efforts to Solve Eight—months-old Mystery.

Argyllshire police, aided by pathon logists, are conducting extensive Ino v.estfgations Into the circumstances - surrounding the discovery of the - naked body of Jessie Cameron, 17, of t Glenborrodale, In a stream near hor '• home, says a London paper. n She fiad beefr missing for eight 3 months. y Jessie Cameron, who was the " daughter of a Joiner on the Glenborrodale estate, left her home to gather wood on the hillside. » i She returned to her home and was ' heard to drop the bundle of wood and n an axe, but after that no trace of her oould be found. There were -stories In circulation in the district that a strange car had been I seen at the time of the girl’s disaps pearance. n A post-mortem was carried out by Dr. Andrew Currie, of Oban, and Ills y report has been placed In the hands of the Lord Advocate’s department In e Edinburgh. The police are now awaitit lng the Lord Advocate’s Instructions. h "■

►— When found, tho girl’s body was in i- a good state of preservation, due, It is s thought, to a chemical substance in e the peaty water, if r A Dlffloult Problem. * Inspector M&nAlplne, who Is in j charge of the Inquiries, described the tragedy as a difficult problem to un- ® ravel. 'Z "Everything points to the girl having 1 in -some manner met her death by drowning in the hill stream where she ® was found,” he said. "We are still lna veetlgating the circumstances of the r case. “One of its most puzzling features n Is that the stream was thoroughly n combed by search parties, who found - no trace of the girl or her clothing—even on occasions when the stream y was at a very' low level, s “The only explanation—and a prob•f able one—ls that the body may have n been hidden from sight under boulders ior debris brought down by the 3. , stream.”