INHUMAN CRUELTY
WOMAN LOCKED IN CELLAR
FOR YEARS
GENEVA, 21st February.
An amazing easo of inhuman cruelty has been revealed in tho isolated village of Montsevelier, where a woman aged 30 was locked up for three years in a small dark cellar, which was in an indescribably foul condition and was unheatcd.
Tho unfortunate creature was clothed in a few rags which hud to be soaked in water before being cut off with a pair of scissors. She is the merest skeleton and her hair is quite grey. Her scanty food supply was pushed through a small hole in the wall.
Her parents havo been arrested.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1930, Page 9
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106INHUMAN CRUELTY Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1930, Page 9
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