THE YARRA TRAGEDY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8413, 12 January 1899, Page 2

THE YARRA TRAGEDY.

MAN AND WOMAN ARRESTED. Electrio Tetograp h- Copyright— United Piesa ASSOciat OD, (Received Jan. ]2, 9.30 a.m.) Melbourne. Jan. 12. The mystery .surrounding the Yarra tragedy lias been partly elucidated. A young woman, a domestic servant, calling herself Beatrice Jumieson, whose proper name is understood to be Dubberk, last night visited the detective office and made a statement implicating a man and woman. As the result of her confession a woman calling herself Madame Redalski, and a man named Trovers Alexander Todd, house agent, have been arrested at South Yarra. The name of tho woman whose body was found in the trunk was Mabel Ambrose, formerly employed as seamstress in a Collins street Establishment. The informant was a servant in the house of Redalski. Received Jan. 12, 9.45 a.m.) Todd is a member of a highly respectable family, and is well known in business circles. He appeared staggered when arrested at his office, and without saying a word allowed himself to be quietly handcuffed. Madame Redalski is a Russian, and advertised herself as a medium. Jamieson acted as her servant ancl assistant. The girl Ambrose resided with her mother at South Yarra, and was 17 years of age. Jamieson states thnt the girl Ambrose went to Redalski's house on about December 10th in company with Todd, and desired an operation to be performed. No instruments seem to have been used, but an electric battery was frequently applied and drugs administered. The girl was treated by the woman up till December 23rd. On that day Todd visited her, and the woman left them together in the bedroom. Tho woman returned in about a quarter of an hour and found that Todd had gone, and Ambrose was frothing at the mouth. Redalski attempted to administer brandy, but Ambrose died in her arms. Jamieson made a long statement to the detectives, and described how Todd and herself placed the body in a box, and took it in a buggy to the Yarra. A man and woman were on the bank, and in order to avoid observation they left the box in concealment and took the buggy back to the place from which they had hired it. They went back to the river at midnight, and, tying the box with wire and attaching a largo stone, sank it. The informant states that she has heen troubled by her conscience ever since, and could no longer retain the secret.