A PITIFUL STORY.
TERRIBLE PRIVATIONS OF A FAMILY. WOMEN STARVING/AND DEMENTED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. BRISBANE, May 10. A girl, who wais lost in the bush, last week, was found in a shocking condition. She was unconscious, lying in the glaring sun, and covered with ants. She died shortly after she was discovered. Investigation revealed that the girl's mother and two sisters were lying in a wretched hut, dying of starvation. Each was demented, and they were practically living skeletons. The father died at Christmas while engaged on a ring-barking contract. The women continued the contract, but hard work and insufficient \nourishment drove all crazy, the eldest girl wandering into the bush.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11888, 11 May 1899, Page 5
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113A PITIFUL STORY. Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11888, 11 May 1899, Page 5
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