THE YARRA TRAGEDY
POLICE DISCOVERY. STATEMENT BY BONFIGLIO. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, February 5. The police made the discovery of Mies Coughlan’s burial place in a gully as the result of a statement supplied by Frank Bonfiglio, the former husband of Hannah Mitchell alias Bonfiglio, in December last, when he was in hospital suffering from a gunshot wound allegedly inflicted by Hannah Mitchell during a quarrel. The police also secured evidence that the body was taken to the gully by Bonfiglio and the three accused women. They obtained a statement from Mrs Milward admitting that she had assisted in removing the body.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18780, 6 February 1923, Page 7
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102THE YARRA TRAGEDY Otago Daily Times, Issue 18780, 6 February 1923, Page 7
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