MURDER OF RECLUSE
Man Charged Found Insane (N.Z. Prat Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8.40 p.m.) MELBOURNE, February 26. A man charged with the murder of a reclusive woman scientist near Melbourne on February 18, had been declared insane, the Melbourne City Court was told today. He is Victor Maxwell Jones, aged 25, a gold prospector, of the suburb of Greenvale. The police prosecutor, Inspector K. Hubbard told the Magistrate (Mr J. Addison) that Jones had been transferred to an institution, and could not answer .a charge of having murdered Dr. Annie Yoffa, aged 68. Mr Addison adjourned the charge to a date to be fixed. Dr. Yoffa’s battered body was found outside a tent she had lived in for a number of years in isolation at the Basin in the Dandenong foothills, about 20 miles from Melbourne. Dr. Yoffa was a former associate of Dr. Sigmund Freud.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28832, 28 February 1959, Page 15
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