YARRA RIVER MYSTERY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 30, 5 February 1923, Page 5

YARRA RIVER MYSTERY.

! THREE WOMEN ARRESTED. >iONE CHARGED WITH MURDER. MELBOI'RXK, February 4. c Three women, Hannah Mitchell, Mare'giiret Mitchell, and Margaret .Milward, ;eihavc been arrested in connection with s. i the discovery of a body in the River i Yaria. Hannah Mitchell is charged with c having murdered, iv November, a girl i- named Bertha < oiighlan. and the other s. two are charged with being accessories a after the fact. All were .remanded, h A doctor who made a pos-t-niurieiii on : | the body stated that it was too much! Ie ilec.miposed for him to be a.ble to give . s the cause of death, but the head had , x not been severed. but apparently , a dropped off when lite body was removed ~_ from its original resting place. !„! The police evidence showed that; .gjCougdilan came to Melbourne from i (uieo | to receive medical treatment. She .vent j ''to tin' house of Nurse Mitchell- a" l ' j „ I next .lav the nitr-c -c.-ure.i .. car and I P J allegedly took a body, -opposed to he i pithat ofVoiighlun. and Ilid it '» a SU.H.V | ',■4.-. mile- from Melbourne. 'The H l, <- '"iacling on certain information received, . discovered where the body had »"*" \ '" i removed from the gully, but lost trace] * d !«.f ii tint.il Iridav night, wu-ii t :u\v - ! °' ■ • -eive.l . lelepho'ue call from a man 'I'isiatim; mat he had sec, I ,vo men durnpin it-"- a biir p-i-kagc f!»"i Vndeo»oii Street isl ßnJs/in('. ■'■ <>-> utile irf '- v her an.-' llaiuiali Mit.-n.dl wa- oul on s- : h„i! .ii connection with a sensational ,d ! shoo tin" airair in D-ember last. ig; \|j.. "« oughlan wa- the daughter <rt I c' well known residents of Onieo. ller '" ' rel.it ivc- were ;."t a ware t'nat anything iinto.vaid iv.l ntippeiie.l iv her. They M ,|,,„ l thai after visiting Melbourne, in 'eceive .ittention to lie: r\e- -tie iiad ). .-.,,„• on a vi-.t I" friend- T'le police stale that tile b..d\ wii' : .v.c. it not j .tiirk-e. removed :•• new burial place* before being dumped int., th- nver -(A. j and V.Z. Cable. " ; AFTER A QUARREL. )' HUSBAND'S CONFESSION. j c X...-..-I 11 a.iv . MKI.RnI KNF, tliis day. ! I In,, p.ci-c mad.- ti.e dit-overy of Miss r 'Berth iigrilan's oitrial place in a aiillv. as the re-tilt ..1 a -t a tenieii*. supn jyli.-.l \,\ Frank Koutigiiv. loriuei :i i-bji.-i tJ of Hannah Miu-nell. alia- liontigiio. m a December ia-! wnen m was in hospital i, ■suffering from a gunshot wound g |allegedly inflicted i.y Tfauiiau Mitchell c ;dur:ng a <|iiarie!. 'Cue |Hilive al-o n seemed evidence tiial I"c body was taken rl to the gully by BonTiiilio and the three ■1 jaccit-eil women. Tiiev obtained a -;a'fI. ; iuent from Mr-. Milward. admitting sh. & assisted in removing trie oody.—(A. and iX.Z. C-able. "* J.