WIMBOBNE SKELETON
DEVOTED OLD WOMEN. LONDON, February 8. The Wimbome couple were devoted, and lived a recluse life for thirty years. When the first woman died her companion slept for two nights with the body, thinking it would come to life. Sno intended to keep the remains until she died and they would bo buried together. A message on Saturday said that the police entered a house at Wimbome and found a cloth-covered skeleton of an old woman in a "bed. It was believed that she had been dead for several years. An old woman companion had snared the house for a decade.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8350, 10 February 1913, Page 8
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103WIMBOBNE SKELETON New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8350, 10 February 1913, Page 8
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