REVEALED IN SLEEP.
HOMICIDE BY YOUNG WOMAN. MOTHER HEARS MUTTERINGS. (United Press Association— Copyright. ) NEW YORK, Nov. 22. A remarkable story was told by the police at Philadelphia how the mother of a 19-year-old girl, listening to her mutterings in sleep many nights, pieced together details of" a. homicide her daughter committed, which so preyed on the mother’s mind that she called in detectives. The daughter, Mary O’Connor, honour student at Immaculate College, when arrested at the home of her grandfather, where she was visiting, admitted that, followed by Nancy Gleen a neighbour’s child, -who demanded the use of her bicycle, she struck and buried her in a muddy pool. Mary’s father, who is a teacher in the local' High School, said his wife was so worried that she had lost two stone until she decided to call in the authorities.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 38, 24 November 1937, Page 5
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