A FAMILY IMPRISONED.
FOE. FIVE YEARS. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Rome, July 15. A demented Italian wine merchant named Rea has confined his wife and eleven children for the last five years in twelve separate rooms in a country house near Naples. He guarded his prisoners with the utmost vigilance, feeding them on maize, potatoes, eggs, and poultry. %
He finally allowed two sons to go for a short walk in the neighborhood. They informed the police, and Rea. was arrested. The mother had not seen her children for five years.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 84, 18 July 1910, Page 5
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89A FAMILY IMPRISONED. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 84, 18 July 1910, Page 5
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