THE YARRA TRAGEDY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18801, 2 March 1923, Page 5

THE YARRA TRAGEDY

CORONER’S INQUIRY OPENED. Frees Association— By Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, March 1. The coroner’s inquiry into the Yarra tragedy has commenced. The relatives so far have been unable to identify the body as that of Bertha Goughian. BONTT CLIO’S EVIDENCE. MELBOURNE, March 1. (Received March 1, at 10.30 p.m.) At the inquest concerning the Yarra murder, Frank Bonfiglio, the divorced husband of the accused, Hannah Mitchell, gave evidence that during November last he visited Mitchell’s house, and Mitchell told him that a girl there was very ill. She asked him to help to carry the girl to the bathroom, and in the bathroom Mitchell performed an operation cm the girl, who was then carried back to her bedroom, whore she died on the following night. Witness alleged that Mitchell wrapped tho body in a blanket, and with his assistance convoyed it in a motor car to a deep gully at Coldstream, where Mitchell 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 if they found her.