LOCKED IN AN ATTIC.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18629, 9 February 1924, Page 2 (Supplement)

LOCKED IN AN ATTIC.

TEACHER'S EXPERIENCE. Scotland Yard was recently communicated with in connection with the case of Miss Mabel Constance Moore, a 26-years-old schoolmistress, formerly a teacher at a London County Council school near Finsbury Park. She was stated to have ■ been found imprisoned and half-starved in an attic of a house in Lugano, Switzerland. ' Mr. Moore,.her. father, who lives,, in Chiswick, stated that his daughter left England last summer with a conducted touring party for a tour of Northern Italy and Switzerland and was taken ill. "I saw my daughter about a month ago in a Swiss nursing home," said Mr. Moore. "She was then mentally ill but bodily well. In charge of her was a German doctor. I learned that she hated his presence. Hence I arranged a change of doctors, and an Italian took charge of her. He kept me acquainted of my daughter's progress. Hi.* last report was received exactly a week ago. I - have forwarded weekly sums of money," averaging about £7, for my .daughter's maintenance. .. < • ":j ''■: '•' '

"When I saw my daughter she ' was being kept in a locked room. All her beautiful hair, which fell below her'waist, had been cut off, for, I suppose, -medical reasons. At the time I saw her I thought everything was quite all right at ; , the home," -'. .- • ' ' "•