MELBOURNE TRAGEDY.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 6 February 1923, Page 1

MELBOURNE TRAGEDY.

THE POLICE’S FIRST CLUE. Per Press Association—Copyright. MELBOURNE, February 5. The police made the discovery of Miss Coughlan’s burial-place in the gully as a 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 Miss Milward admitting that she assisted in removing the body.