Extraordinary Discovery in Peris.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 125, 28 May 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

Extraordinary Discovery in Peris.

Some months ago (the, Paris corrQ?p6rident of the "Daily Telegraph", says) an old womapand her idiot dauglitqr.'wlio.were living iri'great destitution at. St. .Denis, became, heirs to a suno,„of £800. . Shortly: after the --fact became known, "tbe mother, and daughter disappeared, thpir nea,rest;friehds. being cotnpletely in the dark as" to their whereabouts.- The,police,.when, the state of affairs/was made known to.them, arrived at the 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 two women in a. dirty room at the tbpp^ 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 iri' his bouse with her daughter while the proceeding jn 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 bad been undergoing this treatment for nearly three months in the niidst of the borough of St. Denis ; arid riot a soul troubled about them until -heir friends, who lived in another suburb of Paris, took it inbo^heir head that something was wrong, as they had not heard from them. The . pettifogger and bis wife, who had gone for a holiday to Paris while the police were searching their house, jvere arrested on their return. ' .'.'■'• ,; ~„.; ~,,.

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