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,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1565, 23 May 1887, Page 3
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290A STRANGE STORY Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1565, 23 May 1887, Page 3
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