The Yarra Tragedy.

Manawatu Herald, 14 January 1899, Page 2

The Yarra Tragedy.

! TWO ARRESTS. [THE MYSTERY COMING TO LIGHT. The mystery surrounding the Yarra tragedy is partly elucidated. A young woman, a domestic servant, calling herself Beatrice Jamieson, whose proper name is understood to be Dubberke, on Tuesday night visited the detective office and made a statement implicating a man and woman. As a result of the confession a woman calling herself Madame fledalski and a man named Travers Alexander Todd, house agent, have been arrested at South Yarra. The namu of the woman whose body was found in the trunk was Mabel Ambrose, formerly employed as seamstress in a Collins -street establishment The informant wa* a servant in th -» house of BedaJski. Todd id a number of a highly respectable family, and is well-known in business circles in the city. He appeared staggered when arrested in his office. Without saying a word he allowed himself tg be quietly handcuffed. Madame Redalski is a Russian, and advertised herself as madame. The girl Jamieson acted as servant and assistant. The victim, Mabel Ambrose, resided with her mother a: Yarra and was 17 years of age. The girl Jamieson states that the girl Ambrose went to R?dalski's douse about the 10th of December in company with Todd, and desired an operation performed. No inatru m?nt? were seen being used, but an electric battery was frequently applied and drugs administered. The girl was treated by the woman np till December 18:.h. On that day Todd visited her, and the woman left them togsther in the bedroom. The woman returned in about a quarter of an hour and found Todd had gone and the girl Ambrose was frothing at the mouth. Redalski attempted to administer brandy, but Ambrose died in her arms. The girl Jamieson made a long statement to the detectives, describing how Todd and herself placed the body in a box and took it in a buggy to the Yarra. A man and woman

?ere on the bank. In order to avoid ( bservation they left the box in conealment, and took the baggy back 0 the place from which they had tired it. They went back to the iver at midnight and, tying the box iath wire and attaching a large tone, sank it. She states she had teen troubled by her conscience ever c ince, and could no longer retain the ] lecret. c