MURDER MYSTERY

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20729, 13 February 1939, Page 7

MURDER MYSTERY

THE “PYJAMA GIRL” OAAE STORY OF IDENTIFICATION CLAIMED AS MAN'S SISTER (United Press Assn.—Elec. TeL Copyright) SYDNEY. Feh. 11 The police have received Information from a man at Bourke, in the tar west of New South Wales, that the murdered ‘‘pyjama girl.” whose body is still preserved in formalin at the Sydney University, was his sister, named Gwen Garland. The girl was formerly In business in Sydney with a German Importer of lingerie, whose photograph, with the girl, he (the brother; still possesses. She went to Albury in 1034, just before her murder was reported in September of that year. Mr Garland said he had refrained from communicating: with the police until now in deference to the wishes of his parents, but was' now disclosing the secret owing to having had sleepless nights. The police have taken the matter up, but are not too optimistic. The body of the murdered girl was found In a culvert on the Lowlong Road about four and a-half miles from Albury, New South Wales, on the morning of September 2, 1934. It was believed that the victim was between 22 and 27 years of age. A reward of £SOO for information leading to the conviction of the person responsible for the murder was offered in April. 1936. The inquest was concluded at Albury on January 18, 1938, the coroner's verdict being that death was due to injuries to the woman's skull feloniously inflicted by some person or persons unknown.