"Pyjama Girl" Convict To Be Deported
Keceivcd Suaday, 7.30 p.rri. MFLBOUKNE, Marcli 7; Anlonio Agostini, convieted in ' 19-14 for Ihe niansluugliler of tlie "pvjania girl", vill be deporLed to Italy. He has compJeted his lerin of imprisonment but is being Iield at I'entridge gaol to await deportat ion. Agostini Jias appealod against liis deporlation but Ihe papers haA-(i already been signed. He arrived in Auslralia in Seplember, 1927, but has nevcr been naturalised. He was senteneed to six years' irnprisonincut for maxislaughter ol: the pyjama girl avHosc ideutitv was deelared by a Helbourne coroner to be that of Agostini 's wife (nee Lindu Pratt, aged 28). The body was fouml in a culvert on tlie Alburv-Howlong Road (Victoria) on September 7, 1934, and Agostini was arrested nearly 10 years later. He has been a model prisoner and lias received the maxiinum reduction of the sentenee.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 March 1948, Page 3
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