MELBOURNE’S MOST NOTORIOUS WOMAN
Hannah Mitchell was born in England in 1877, where she got a midwife certification, and came to Australia with her husband and three children in 1913. After her husband was killed in the Great War, she set up her clinic in Richmond, advertising herself as a nurse, even though she had no such qualification.
Mitchell became infamous in mid January 1923 when she shot and badly wounded her abusive third ex-husband, petty crook Frank Bonfiglio,
