FATHER KILLS CHILD
DREAM OF MAD DOG A bereaved father of Munford. Tennessee',' told in Court the other day of a nightmare that mado him leap from bed and kill his little daughter under the delusion she was a mad dog. Magis•trats 0. L. McCain said Reuben Flynn's strange story had been investigated and no charges were being filed in the death of three-year-old Helen Marie Flynn at their tenant farm home.
The family, awakened by the child's screams, found the 35-year-old father flailing her against the Avails of a bedroom where she had been' sleeping with her parents. Awakened „ Flynn told dazedly of his dream that a dog was attacking Helen Marie. The baby's skull was crushed and she died in a lew jboura.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23761, 14 September 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
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