GIRL SHUT-UP FOR 3 YEARS.
A shocking story-is ; reported .from Five ; Acres,; hear Colefoifly ’FnglAnd. For many years’ an old woman had lived there-'ln apparent chiefly : by begging. • She became paralysed a few flays ago and died. In her,.bed;was; found a canister containing £9O in cash. In another room was found a girl about; 17 years of.age in a semi-mude state.i She* had been shut in the robin for tKree ; years,? and had never left; it during Fthat; time. The girl, who has become ! qnite; imbecile, .haspbeen, ; re.soyedp- t to Mon-j nmuth ; Union.. oHherneighbors did not; know of the girl’s existence;! |
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Patea Mail, 10 May 1882, Page 3
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