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...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 murdering his wife, Linda Platt, daughter of Mrs. Flemington by an earlier marriage...
Years ago Australian police had sent Mrs. Flemington photos of the Pajama Girl. She had denied that the mangled face could be her daughter's. But she kept on having dreams that her daughter was afloat. Last month a weary Sydney detective, rereading a Flemington appeal, had a hunch: a dentist was found who could say positively that the Pajama Girl's dentistry tallied with Linda's. After that, everyone remembered details-how the pretty, sharp-featured Linda had clerked in a store, ushered in a cinema, shipped as hairdresser on Red Star liners; how Antonio...
Said Mrs. Flemington, as her son-in-law waited trial in Melbourne: "The Australian police told me they would solve the mystery ... if it took a lifetime. They kept their word...
...Flemington's tax rate, now 28? and by far the lowest in New Jersey, is still dropping. By the end of next year, Flemington and Hunterdon County will have paid off $11,000 in bonded debt with city slicker money, will be debt free. What will happen then, Flemingtonians do not know. But they can dream-of a super-velvety municipal golf course, a Hollywoodian town swimming pool, even a Utopian tax holiday...