EVIDENCE AT INQUEST.

Shannon News, 2 March 1923, Page 4

EVIDENCE AT INQUEST.

FORMER HUSBAND TESTIFIES AGAINST ACCUSED. BODY IN LONELY GULLY- , (Received Thursday, 11 , MELBOURNE, March 1. At the inquest on the victim of the Yarra murder, JPrank Bonfiglio, the divorced husband of the, accused Nurse Hannah Mitchell, gave evidence that, during November last he visited Mitchell’s house and Mitchell told.him a girl there-was ver£ 111. She ash® d -him to help carry the girl to the bathroom and in the bathroom Mitchell performed an operation on the. girl, who was then carried back to her bedroom, where she died on the following night. Witness alleged that Mitchell wrapped the body ,in a blanket, ana with his assistance conveyed it _in a motor car to a deep' gully at Coldstream, where Mitchell removed the blanket and covered „the ’body ferns, stating that she would be eaten by some animal in a few days, ana nobody would know who she was even < if theyfound her. - WHO IS THE VICTIM? MELBOURNE, March 1. The relatives have so far been unable to identify the: body as i that of Bertha Coughlan. .. . [A decapitated body, believed to be . that of Bertha Coughlan, was found in a bag in the Yarra-a few days-ago, the head being found in, a second bag. Sitbsequently Hannah Mitchell. Margaret Mitchell, and Margaret Millward were, arrested, the first-named on a charge of murder, and the other two, with being accessories after-the fact.]