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I used Mrs Coutts (not Coots as typed by newspapers) for the name used by Philomena because no such name as Coots existed in Australia in 1934. What was interesting was Jack Coutts was a jockey described by one newspaper as "gay pretender" [in the 1930s sense] and "pseudo-jockey"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/169307305?searchTerm=%22coutts%22%2C%20%22pseudo%22

He seems to be in the right locations for Anna Philomena. For example in October 1934 he was in front of a racing tribunal inquiry in Albury trying to work out whether he was cheating. This was a common theme for Jack Coutts. Yet he always seemed to get off without punishment.

There was also a J. Coutts playing golf for Albury in August 1934. But perhaps a James not Jack.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/271695643?searchTerm=%22coutts%22%2C%20%22albury%22

Stewards inquiry:

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/271716818?searchTerm=%22coutts%22%2C%20%22albury%22


He was in trouble even in 1944.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/168764163?searchTerm=%22coutts%22%2C%20%22jockey%22

 

I would look at the original inquest evidence (on the teeth) on the Pyjama Girl.

I analysed it and deduced:

https://medium.com/@binreminded/why-the-pyjama-girl-is-not-linda-agostini-dc619e12e72e

It comes down to whether you believe the dentist in 1934 who first examined the body or the one in 1944.

It does not prove Anna was the body but it disproves Linda was the Pyjama Girl. Tony Agostini had no clue about where the body was or method of death of the Pyjama Girl but was responsible for the death of Linda - hence why he accepted the light sentence gladly otherwise a murder sentence.

Radio sports announcer Leo Keane wrote a Pajama Girl song wanting to hang Agostini. Tony He chose the better option of manslaughter.

You need to search the evidence of Mrs Mabel Blackett on trove who ran an employment agency. She said Anna was desperate to go to Albury and applied for a job in Henty which she had no intention of fulfilling she just wanted the trainfare to get there. She said she would walk to Albury.

Mrs Blackett spent over 1 hour trying to help her so she knew what she looked like and said she would never change her opinion that the body was Anna Philomena Morgan - the woman who entered her job agency.

Also there is the Mrs Coutts identity story - where the child said it's Mrs Coutts in the newspaper. She had told her mother she was really Anna Philomena Morgan.

So two strong identifications of her over a long period of time. Also we know the bust size of the body was wrong and the eye colour for Linda.

People should read Lezli-an Barrett's PHD thesis on the Pyjama Girl - it is far from boring as it is a film script but throroughly researched. I would estimate 95% factual accuracy and obviously she added some things to make it more interesting/romantic.

https://api.research-repository.uwa.edu.au/ws/portalfiles/portal/21716246/THESIS_DOCTOR_OF_PHILOSOPHY_BARRETT_Lezli_An_2017.pdf

One fact for example is she names Meg Griffith's horse as Mecano - where she has Mrs Blackett reading the newspaper the day she met Anna Philomena and guess what was in the newspaper that day...Meg Griffiths and Mecano in Albury ...amazing research. She could easily have invented a newspaper story for a film script even for a PHD.