THE YARRA TRAGEDY.
HOW THE GIRL DIED. BODY LEFT IN DEEP GULLY. MELBOURNE,, March 1. At the inquest on the victim of the Yarra murder, Frank Bonfiglio, .the divorced husband of the accused Nurse Hannah Mitchell, gave evidence that during November last ho visited Mitchell s house and Mitchell told him a girl there was very ill. She asked him to help carry tlie girl to the bathroom. Mitchell performed an operation on the girl, who was then carried back to her bedroom,, where she died on the following mght. Witness alleged that Mitchell wrapped the body in a blanket, and with his assistance conveyed it in a motor car to a deep gully at Coldstream, where Mitehel removed the blanket and covered the body with ferns, stating that she would be eaten by some animal in a few days, and nobody would know who she was even it they found hor.—A. and N.Z, cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 645, 2 March 1923, Page 5
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155THE YARRA TRAGEDY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 645, 2 March 1923, Page 5
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