RELIGIOUS MANIA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 14 March 1939, Page 3

RELIGIOUS MANIA

PATHETIC CASE IN SYDNEY DEAD BODY OF WOMAN LYING IN BED f U.l* A. -Hv Electric Telegraph—Cop.v right 1 SYDNEY. 13th March. The skeleton of an elderly woman, aged 91 years, who had been dead for some months was found to-day in the suburb of Bel more in the house where the dead woman’s four daughters were living. The discovery followed a visit by a minister, who, when he apked one of the daughters how her mother war,, was informed thqt she hatj died in November. The police were notified and the body was found lying in a bed neatly covered with blankets. One daughter told the police that it was the will of God that thpir mother was not buried. The four daughters have been removed to an institution. The police stated that it was the most pathetic case of religious mania that has come under their notice for many years.