Pyjama Girl Murder Suspect Before Court

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 55, 8 March 1944, Page 5

Pyjama Girl Murder Suspect Before Court

EXCITED CROWD WATCHES PROCEEDINGS Received Tuesday, 9.55 p.m. MELBOURNE, March 7. An excited crowd thronged the City Court to-day when Antonio Agostini, accused of the Pyjama Girl murder, was remanded until March 15. The public gallery of the Court was crowded to capacity while hundreds of people jammed the Court entrances. The proceedings were formal, Agostini being remanded in custody without evidence being called. He did not speak in Court and no request was made for bail. A police witness said he understood Agostini had made a statement to the New South Wales Commissioner of Police (Mr. Mackay). Linda Platt’s mother read the Pyjama Girl story in a London newspaper eight years ago and told the Victorian police that the description fitted her daughter, it is revealed to-day. The mother, now Mrs. Edith Flemington, of Littlehampton, Sussex, asked the Victorian police to investigate, but the information she sent was .insufficient for the police to take action. At the time they were investigating hundreds of cases affecting missing girls. The suburb of Carlton, where it was alleged in the Court charge that Agostini murdered Linda Agostini on or about August 26, 1934, is more than 200 miles from where the body was found.