INHUMAN CRUELTY
, WOMAN KEPT IN CELLAR. 'United Press As»qciation~By Eleetrio . Telegraph—Copyright). geneva, F«b. 21., An .amazing case of inhuman cruelty has been revealed in an isolated village of Montsevelier, where a woman, aged 39, was locked up for three years in —a! small da’rk cellar, which was indescribably foul and unheated. The unfortunate creature was clothed in a few rags, 'which had to be soaked, in water before being cut off her with ’a) pAi’r of' scissors. She was the merest -skeleton: Her hair was quite/ grey. Scanty "food was pushed to iler through a Small- hole ill the Vail. Her parents havte been arrested. •
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1930, Page 4
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105INHUMAN CRUELTY Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1930, Page 4
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