"PYJAMA GIRL" CLAIM

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 76, 30 March 1944, Page 5

"PYJAMA GIRL" CLAIM

Evidence That Body Is That

Of Phyllis Morgan

RESUMPTION OP INQUEST

Rec. 11.30. MELBOURNE, this day.

Evidence in the claim that the "Pyjama Girl" was Anna Philomena Morgan was given at the resumed inquest before the coroner. Mr. Barry, K.C., appearing for Mrs. Routledge, said he believed that the rebuttal to his case would be that Anna Philomena Morgan was identical with a girl named Jean Morris, who was murdered in Queensland in 1932. A former police sergeant named Gallivan could establish that Miss Morgan was alive in 1934, said Mr. Barry. One witness said that he knew Phyllis Morgan when she was 18 and a wisp of a girl. He had seen the body of the "Pyjama Girl" yesterday and, although it was plumper, he was sure that it was that of Phyllis Morgan. Another witness, who conducts an employment agency, told a story of an agitated girl who came to her office in Sydney in August, 1934, and applied for a job, saying that she wanted to go to Albury. She did not know her name but from a photograph shown her it was Miss Morgan. . . , T . ~ Antonio Agostini, aged 41, Italian waiter, who is charged with the murder of his wife Linda Agostini, was again present in custody. The police claim that the "Pyjama Girl," whose battered and partly burned body was found under a culvert near Albury, in September, 1934, is Linda Agostini. Mrs. Jeanette Routledge, of Bomaderrv, New South Wales, claims' it is the body of her daughter, Anna Philomena Morgan. The hearing is unfinished.