GIRL WALLED UP IN A LONELY HOUSE.
■The police of. Barcelona are investigating the story of Esteban Gutierrez, a stonemason, who declares that he was forced to wall up a young girl in a building near the city. Gutierrez says that two well-dressed men called at his home with a motorcar, and asked him to accompany them a short distance into the . country to oarry out some urgent repairs. When they were outside the city tho men seized Gutierrez, bound him, and blindfolded his eyes. A . few ruiuutes later the car stopped in front of a lonely house.
The mason says he was led inside, and ordered to wall up a narrow aperture. He heard someone sobbing, and, tearing the bandage from his eye.?, he saw a young girl, bound with ropes and wedged in the aperture. His captors ordered him to build a wall so as to enclose the unfortunate ftirl, and when Gutierrez refused they threatened him with revolvers. He says that he was forced to comply with their commands, after which the car conveyed him to a wood several miles i away. Eefore leaving ltim in the wood the men gave Gutierrez Jit in silver, and warned him not to speak of the incident. He was found by a woodman, and he went at onco to the police.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1809, 23 July 1913, Page 10
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373GIRL WALLED UP IN A LONELY HOUSE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1809, 23 July 1913, Page 10
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