DECAPITATED BODY

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 119, 5 February 1923, Page 7

DECAPITATED BODY

MYSTERY OF A GIRL’S DEATH BY TOLEGBAFH. —PItVfB ASSOCIATION. —Copyright. M3lfcGiirne, February 3. IVhilo dragging the Yarra, tho police discovered the decapitated body of a young girl in a bag. The head was found in a second bag. Tho decomposition of the body indicated that the gir had been*deail for sonic months. The police had been' searching for a coffin Reported to have been thrown from a bridge by two men the previous ni^ht. —Press Assn< ~ ° (Rec. February 4, 0.0 p.m.) I'deibourne, February 4. A doctor who made a post-mortem examSion of the bocß stated toat it was too much decayed fot him to be ohle to give the cause ot Gtath, out he was sure that the. head had not been severed, but apparently had dropped off wiien the body was removed from its orginal resting p-acc. Three women. Hannah Mitche , Margaret Mitchell, and Margaret Milward have been arrested. 'Jim. firstnamed is charged with nmrienng m November a girl named lan and the other two with being <ic cessories after the fact. All were temanded. The police evidence showed toat Goughian came to Melbourne from Otneo to receive medical tieatment. She went to the house oi Nurse Mitchell. Tho next day the nm-.e -ecurcd a car and allegedly took a bodv supposed to be Goughian’s, and hid it in a. gully 45 miles flora Melbourne. The police, acting on certain information received, discovered where the body had been removed from the gully, but lost trace oi it until Friday night, when they received a telephone call from a- man wao stated that ho had seen two men dumping a big package from . the Anderson Street bridge into the Yarra. flagging resulted in tho discovery of the b °At the time of her arrest Hannah Mitchell was out on bad in connection with a sensational shooting allair m December last. . Bertha Goughian was the daughter of well-known residents of Omeo. Her relatives were not aware that anything untoward had happened to her. They supiKised that after visiting Melbourne to receive attention to her ores she had gone on a visit to fncnds. The police say that the body was twice if not three times removed to new burial places before being dumped into tho river.—Press Assn.