WIFE BURIED ALIVE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10957, 27 April 1907, Page 7 (Supplement)

WIFE BURIED ALIVE.

— _— — •-• ♦ - -• ■-. EIGHTEEN MONTHS IN A HOLE IN THE GROUND. An old' woman was found practically buried alive m a wood on the outskirts of Versailles to-day. She is the, wife of a ragpicker who lived ill V hut on the border of the wood. Nobody had seen his wi f e for the last two years, but today a couple of forest guards, '-whi'? walking through the woods, were startled by hearing a moaning sound, apparently from some dry brushwood almost under their feet. Pushing aside the brushwood, they =aw looking out of a hole m the ground the face of an old woman. They found that she was buried m the hole, the entrance to which was less than two fe*: square. With some difficulty they dug her out. She was. m a terribly emaciated condition, and had beeu lying on a mass of filth m her prison, which was .our feet wide, six feet long, and two feet deep. The woman, who is sixty years old, had lived buried m this hole for the last eighteen months. Her husband brought her food occasionally, and when he left for his day'B work covered over the f-n---trance to the hole. The woriian was .sent m an ambulance to the Versailles Hospital, where she lies m a serious condition. The rag-pie_.>i has been arrested. Hundreds of people went to the woods to-day to see the nla.t m which the woman had been entombe, for so long. . '