TRAGIC DELUSION
THOUGHT CHILD MAD DOG A bereaved father of Munford, Tennessee, told in court the other day of a nightmare that made him leap from bed and kill his little daughter under the delusion she was a mad dog. Magistrate C. • C. McCail said Reuben Flynn's strange story had been investigated and no charges were being filed in the death of three-year-old Helen Marie Flynn at their tenant farm home. The family, awakened by the child's screams, found the 35-year-old father flailing her against the walls of a bedroom where she had been sleeping with her parents. Awakened, Flynn told dazedly of his dream that a dog was attacking Helen Marie. The baby's skull was crushed and she died in a few hours.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1940, Page 5
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124TRAGIC DELUSION Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1940, Page 5
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