THE YARRA TRAGEDY

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXV, Issue 9247, 14 January 1899, Page 2

THE YARRA TRAGEDY

STARTLING STATEMENTS,

HUMAN FIENDS AT WORK.

I'iess Association—Elentrio Tole^nph-CopyrlKK

Melbourne, January 12: Todd has made a statement. He says he was intimate with the girl Ambrose, and when she became pregnant Eadalski said for his sake she would remove the trouble. She took the girl into the house as a'servant.";'"' On the day Ambrose died Eodalski and Jamieson informed him that after the former used some Opwly's fluid Ambrose gave a loud scieam and fell back dead. He tried to restore her .with.water .bottles;'and..branny, and;!' f ■then | discussed |with lijjlh %? various methods of disprisitig of the body, and it was decided to put it intothe Yarra. <

Eadalski and Jamieson undertook to remove the clothing and sew the body in bagging and place it at the foot of a box belonging.tq Jamieson. v ■;.;•'.>-

Then ho details how he atfd Jamieson y (with'a strap), conveyed''the body4aridf threw it into the fiver.' Jamieson informed him that she had" burned deceased's clothes and cut her hair off, as she thought to frustrate identification. Todd concludes with the remark that he knew nothing what;." ever of the use of any arsenical poison; •" Eadalski led him to believe thavthe/ ; analyst had made a mistake. The three prisoners were before the Court to-day, Jamieson was.charged separately, It. is. understood, that .the police accept her as axGrown witness^'

They wore' remanded to tbi 20th. . Todd visitWthe morgue yesterday. He Btates that he was then unable to identify the head.