Pyjama Girl Mystery Solved at Last

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 54, 7 March 1944, Page 5

Pyjama Girl Mystery Solved at Last

VICTIM IDENTIFIED AND HUSBAND ARRESTED Received Monday, 10.40 p.m. SYDNEY, March 6. The victim of the Albury pyjama girl murder on September 1, 1934, has been identified as Linda Platt, aged 28. At the time of her death her married name was Linda Agostini, and her husband Antonio Agostini, aged 40, has been arrested and will appear in the Melbourne Court charged with murder. The woman’s identity was established in Sydney on Saturday, and Agostini was arrested in Sydney and taken to Melbourne at the week end. The pyjama girl body was found in a culvert at Albury on the border of New South Wales and Victoria on September 1, 1934. Her death baffled the police and resulted in worldwide inquiries to establish her identity. The body was preserved in a formalin bath at the Sydney University until twelve months ago when it was moved to a sealed, vault. The police allege that the murder occurred at premises in Swanston Street, Carlton, Melbourne, on August 26, 1934. Beforo marriage she was a Sydney usherette and at one time a hairdresser on the liner Aorangi. Despite numerous failures to have the body identified, periodic reviews were made of the police file of information about the mystery. The last phase of the investigation began seven weeks ago when a new body of detectives was called in to approach the case with fresh minds ready to discover any fact that might have escaped previous notice. These detectives concentrated on a file concerning the disappearance of a woman named Linda Platt, a native of England, who came from there to New Zealand and then on to Sydney. She was traced in Melbourne in 1933. Dental work done by a Sydney dentist to Linda Platt’s teeth gave the clue to her identity.