"PYJAMA GIRL" CASE
Rec. 9 a.m. MELBOURNE, April 5. Dr. Palmer Benbow told the Coroner at the "pyjama girl" inquest today that he would be surprised if an anatomist said that the body of the "pyjama girl" was that of a young woman over 25. He said that in his opinion the body was that of a girl of 22 or 23. Dr. Benbow was giving evidence in support of the claim of Mrs. Routledge that the "pyjama girl" is her daughter Anna Philomena Morgan. She would have been 23 at the time of the death of the "pyjama girl." Counsel assisting the Coroner questioned Dr. Benbow about transparencies he had made of the "pyjama girl" and of Anna Morgan. He showed Dr. Benbow a transparency of a photograph of a living person which was taken a couple of days ago superimposed the transparency of Anna Morgan on it, and asked Dr Benbow whether he did not agree that the face lines matched. Dr. Benbow said it was impossible and that the transparency of the living person had not been done to scaJe. Counsel said a scientific photographer who had done the work would swear that it had. been done to the same scale as the photograph of Anna Morgan. , . . . The inquest was adjourned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 82, 6 April 1944, Page 4
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