FEEDING HER DEAD MOTHER.
TRAGEDY IN SYDNEY.
Sydney, August 29
The death of a woman, Mrs Tlioreau, aged 70, Avas discovered in terribly distressing circumstances at Wyong. When a neighbour knocked at the door it was opened by Mrs Thoreau’s grown-up daughter, in a demented condition. She said her mother Avas sick.
The neighbour, on entering the house, found the body of Mrs Thoieau on the floor of the bedioom. She had been dead six days. Apparently she fell and broke her neck, and her daughter, becoming deranged, thought she Avas only ill" and made attempts during the whole period to feed the dead avoman.
The daughter was removed to the asylum.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3531, 31 August 1926, Page 3
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112FEEDING HER DEAD MOTHER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3531, 31 August 1926, Page 3
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