FEEDING HER DEAD MOTHER
DEMENTED WOMAN FOUND tragedy" In Sydney. By Telegraph. —Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received August 29 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 29. The death of a woman, Mrs Thoreau, aged 70, was discovered in terribly distressing circumstances at Wyong. When a neighbour knocked at the door it was opened by Mrs Thoreau’s grownup daughter, in a demented condition. She said her mother was sick. The neighbour, on entering the house, found the body of Mrs Thoreau on the floor of the bedroom. She had been dead six days. Apparently she fell and broke her neck, and her daughter, becoming deranged, thought she was only ill, and made attempts during the whole period to feed the dead woman. The daughter was removed to the asylum.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12538, 30 August 1926, Page 7
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