RELIGIOUS MANIA
DEAD BODY KEPT
"THE WILL OF GOD"
SYDNEY, March 13. The body of an elderly woman who had been dead for some months was found today in the suburb of feelmore in the house where the dead woman's four daughters were living. The discovery followed a visit by a minister, who, when he asked one of the daughters how her mother was, was informed that she had died in November. She was aged 91. The police were notified and the body was found lying in a bed neatly covered with j blankets. One daughter told the police that it was the will of God that their i mother was not buried. ! The daughters have been removed to j ah institution. The police stated that it was the most pathetic case of religious mania that had come under their notice for many years.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 61, 14 March 1939, Page 9
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144RELIGIOUS MANIA Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 61, 14 March 1939, Page 9
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