AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1923, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN.

(BY TEI.KUKAiUI —PEIt TitESS ASSOOI.VtTONj

A TRAGEDY

.MELBOURNE, Feb. 3

While dragging the Y»rra river the police discovered the decapitated body of a young girl in a bag. The bead was found in a secopd .bag. The decomposition of the body indicated the gill was dead for some months. The police have been searching for a coffin reported to have been thrown from a bridge by two men the previous night. lA DOCK SMASH. AIELBOGRXF, Feb. 3. Owing to tlm gate of Duke and Orr's dry dock on the South hank of the Yarrn collapsing, the water flooded the* dock, causing £20.009 damage. MYSTERY PARTLY SOLVED. At EI.HOFRXE, F* h. L A doctor has made a post mortem on the body found in the Ym-n He stated that the I>* dy is too jemh decayed for him In he able to give tie* cause of the death of the girl, hut lie lias ascertained that the head had not been severed. Imt it apparently dropped oil' when the body was removed from its original resting place. Three women, named Hannah .Mitchell .Hargcrrt A!itcl*elL and Margaret Mihvard. have been arrest**:! in * 'liner lion with the all'nir. T'e* first named is being charged with murdering, in November, a god named !’*t Vi Ooeohlae. The oilier two are ehi>!g**d wit ' 1,.. ".,. accessories alter the fact. .VII line: 'vert* re landed at the Ih,lie * ( on rt. The evidence of the police si rnve ' that Mi-s Gottghla:i came t « .Melhourne from Omen, to r* reive medic'! treatment Fhe went to the house of Nurse A! ' ciii'll. The next day idle nurse secured a ear, and allegedly look a h Tv sir posed to he the girl ' ouglilan’s, am?, hid it in a gully Jo miles from MelIhiii me.