PYJAMA GIRL

Grey River Argus, 3 May 1944, Page 3

PYJAMA GIRL

Coroner’s Finding BODY OF MRS. AGOSTINI.

(Rec. 11.35.) MELBOURNE, May 2. The Coroner, Mr. Tingate gave his verdict to-day in the Pyjama Girl inquest. He said he had found. that the body was that of Linda Agostini. He committed for trial, Antonio Agostini, her husband, on a charge of murder. The Coroner’s written verdict occupied thirty-eight typewritten pages. The Coroner rejected Doctor Benbow’s photographic identification method. He described the evidence of Mrs. Routledge, who claimed that the body was that of her daughter, Anna Philomena Morgan, as having been unreliable.

The Coroner, concluding, said another reason for his identifying the body as that of Linda Agostini was the police evidence of conversations with Antonio Agostini in which it was alleged, he said he placed the body of his wife in the road where it was found on September 1, 1934.