A YOUNG GIRL’S END

Temuka Leader, Issue 10424, 6 February 1923, Page 1

A YOUNG GIRL’S END

BODY FOUND IN THIf. YARRA

Melbourne, Feb. 8

While dragging the Yarra River the police discovered the decapitated body of a young girl in a Dag. The head was found in a second bag. The decomposition of the body indicated that the girl had been dead some months.

A Melbourne doctor who made a post mortem stated that the body was too much decomposed to be able to give the cause of death, but the bead had not been severed, but had apparently dropped off when the body was removed from its last resting place. Three women, Hannah Mitchell, Margaret Mitchell, and Margaret Milward have been arrested, The first-named is charged with murdering in November, a girl named Bertha Goughian, and the other two with being accessories after the fact. All were {remanded. At the time of the arrest, Hannah Mitchell was out on bail in connection with a sensational shooting affair in December last.

Goughian was the daughter of a well-known resident of Omeo. Her relatives were not aware that anything untoward had happened to her. The police say that the body, twice if not thrice, was removed to new burial places before being dumped into the river.