A STRANGE STORY.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 20902, 23 May 1887, Page 2

A STRANGE STORY.

Some months ago an old woman and her idiot daughter, who were living in great destitution at St. Denis (writes tho Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph), became heirs to a sum of LBOO. Shortly after the fact became known the mother “and daughter disappeared, their dearest friends being completely in the dark as to their whereabouts. The police, when the state of affairs was made known to them, naturally arrived at the conclusion that a law agent, who had been consulted about the legacy knew something of the missing persons. They went to his abode, and there found the two women in a dirty room at the top of the house the door of which was strongly fastened inside, had to be broken'down. The women were in a half-starved condition, having been fed for a long time on nothing but bread and water. The old woman stated that she had been invited by the lawagent to reside at his "house with her daughter, while the proceedings in connection with the transfer of the legacy were being 1 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 had been under this treatment for nearly three months in the midst of the Borough of St. Denis, and not a soul troubled about them natal their friends, who live in another suburb of Paris, took it into their heads that something was wrong, | as they had not heard from them. j The pottifogor arid his wife, who had gone for a holiday to Paris, while the police were searehing their house, were arrested on their return, I