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PYJAMA GIRL CASE.
CLOTHES BROUGHT TO SYDNEY
No Trace of a Weapon.
SYDNEY, April 2.-The woman's ga,'
ments recovered by the police
earlier in the week from waterholes
on the Howlong-road, two mi_±l
from Albury, which may be linked
with the pyjama girl mystery
were brought to Sydney yesterday by
Detective Wilks for examination by path
ologists. The clothing comprised two
blouses, a pair of rubber topboots, a pair
of shoes, a pair of slippers and shoe
trees. Detective Wilks left the Melbourne
express with the clothing, wrapped in
brown paper, under his arm.
Arrangements have been made for D
Morgan (Government Pathologist) a:id
his assistant to examine the clothing for
bloodstains, or other marks that might
indicate that it belonged to the girl whose
charred body was found in a culvert, near'
Albury, on September 1, 1934. If Identi
fication can be established, the police be
Meve that the task of locating the owner
would not be difficult. The possibility
of the goods being stolen and having n.i
connection with the murder has not been
overlooked.
Detective Wilkl revealed that the police
had been handicapped from the begin
ning of the present investigations because
their informant had seen the articles
when the lagoons were diy.
The police were hopeful of finding a
revolver in the lagoons after they had
been pumped dry by the fire brigade, but
no trace of a weapon was seen. Had a
revolver been found, this might have been
a startliig development, for the police
might have been able to identify the
weapon with the crime by a bullet which
was removed from the dead girl's skull.
A possibly valuable clue that a drover
named Creighton had seen clothes in the
waterhole a few days after the body was
discovered, proved negative. Creighton
Informed the police that the clothing he
had seen was not near the place where
the present investigations had been made.
The report of the Government Patholo
gist, it is expected, will be available in
a few days.
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