AUSTRALIA: Uneasy Corpse

For nearly ten years the burned and battered body of an unidentified, pajama-clad young woman lay in a tank of Formalin in Sydney University's Pathological Museum. When the streetcars rumbled past, she bobbed gently.

For nearly ten years the neat, determined pen of 68-year-old Mrs. Edith Flemington of Littlehampton, Sussex, England, scratched countless letters to the world's police, demanding solution of her daughter's mysterious disappearance.

Last week the two mysteries merged: astonished Antonio Agostini, bereft husband of the "Pajama Girl," wriggled desperately, impaled upon the point of Mrs. Flemington's relentless pen. Police charged the beefy sometime silk merchant, now a waiter, with...

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