Thank you for correcting the text in this article. Your corrections improve Papers Past searches for everyone. See the latest corrections.

This article contains searchable text which was automatically generated and may contain errors. Join the community and correct any errors you spot to help us improve Papers Past.

Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image

A STRANGE STORY

Some months ago an old woman and her idiot daughter, who were living In great destitution at St Denis* write? the Parfs correspondent of the "Daly Telegraph," became heirs to a sum of £800, Shortly after the fact bee: me known the mother and daughter dlsappeared their nearest frienda be»Jng completely m the dark as to their whereabouts. The police, when the state of affaira was made known to them, natnraUy arrived at the conclusion that a law agei t, who had been consulted about the legacy, knew something of the missing persons. They went to his abode, and .there found th 9 two women m a diriy room at the tcp of the bouse, the door of which, strongly fastened inside, had to be broken down. The women were m a miserable, halfstarved oonditlon, having been fed for a long time on hardly anything but bread tnd water. The old woman stated that she had been invited by the law agent to reside In his houae with her daughter while tho proceedings m connection with the transfer of the legacy were being completed m due form by himself. This was agreed t?, and the two legatees were then putr under lock and key by the pettifogger, Strange to ssy, they had been undergoing this treatment for nearly three months m the midst of the Borough of St Denis, and not a soul troubled about thorn until their friends, who live m another suburb of Paris, took it Into their heads that something was wrong, as (hey had not heard from them. The pettifogger and hiß wife, who had gone for a holiday to Paris, while tho police were searching their house, were arrested on their return,

Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG18870523.2.23

Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1565, 23 May 1887, Page 3

Word count
Tapeke kupu
290

A STRANGE STORY Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1565, 23 May 1887, Page 3

A STRANGE STORY Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1565, 23 May 1887, Page 3

Help

Log in or create a Papers Past website account

Use your Papers Past website account to correct newspaper text.

By creating and using this account you agree to our terms of use.

Log in with RealMe®

If you’ve used a RealMe login somewhere else, you can use it here too. If you don’t already have a username and password, just click Log in and you can choose to create one.


Log in again to continue your work

Your session has expired.

Log in again with RealMe®


Alert