Extraordinary Discovery in Paris.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 206, 4 June 1887, Page 7

Extraordinary Discovery in Paris.

Somtc months ago (tlio Paris correspondent} of the "Daily Telegraph" says) an old woman and her idiot daughter, who were living in groat destitution at St. Denis, became heirs to a sum of £800. Shortly after tho fact became known, the mother and daughter disappeared, their nearest friends being completely in the dark as to their whereabouts. The police, when the state of affairs was made known to them, arrived at tho conclusion that a law-agent who had been consulted about the legacy knew something about the missing persons. They went to his abode, and there found the twowomen in a dirty room at the top of the house, the door of which, strongly fastened inside, had to be broken down. The women. were in a miserable, half -starved condition, having been fed for a long time on hardly anything but bread and water. The old woman stated that she had been invited by the law-agent to reside in his house with her daughter while the proceedings in connection with the transfer of the legacy were being completed in due form by himself. This was agreed to, and the two legatees were then put under lock and key by the pettifogger. Strange to say, they had been undergoing this treatment for nearly three months in the midst of the borough of St. Denis ; and not a soul troubled about them until their friends, who lived in another .suburb of Paris, took it into their head that something was wrong, as they had not heard from them. The pettifogger and his wife, who had gone for a holiday to Paris while the police were searching their house, were arrested on their return.