MUTTERINGS IN SLEEP
lother Detects Crime By Her Daughter MURDER OF CHILD (Reeeived 24, 8.45 a.m.) PH1LADELPHIA, Nov. 22. A remarkable story is told - by the pohee oi how the luotlier of a 19-year-old girJ, through. listening to her muttenngs during her sleep for many nights, pieced together the details of a ' homicide her daughter had comrnitted and which so preyed on the mothcr's mind that she called in detectives. Mary O'Connor, aii honours student at an immaculate college, when arrested at the hoine of her grandl'ather, where she was visiting, readily admitted that, when sho was followed by Nancy Gleen, a neighbour's child who had demanded to use her bicycle, she struck and buricd her in a muddy pool. Mary's father, who is a teacher at the local high school, said that his wife had been so worried that she had lost two stone until she decided to call in the authoritier ^
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 52, 24 November 1937, Page 11
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