SHUT UP FOR 19 YEARS.
STRANGE STORY REVEALED. Following the death of a 64-year-old woman, Anna Moersch, at Gers, a villago in tho Eifel district of Germany, the authorities have discovered that two sisters and a brother-in-law had kept her imprisoned in a small room in their inn for 19 years. During that period no one other than her three relatives saw the woman, whoso body is said to weigh less than 4st. Among peasants of the district the dead woman's relatives had a reputation of possessing supernatural powers. Consequently, when, years ago, the woman disappeared from view, no one said anything about it, fearing that an evil eye would be placed on their cattle and pigs if they did. The sisters and brother-in-law maintain that Anna was weak-minded, and could not be permitted to se® anyone.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21170, 30 April 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)
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137SHUT UP FOR 19 YEARS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21170, 30 April 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)
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