MAD WITH GRIEF.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17944, 1 May 1928, Page 9

MAD WITH GRIEF.

DEMENTED FATHER’S RASH ACT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, April 30. ■ The Paris correspondent of the “Daily Chronicle” states that an amazing tragedy is reported from a Spanish convent at Valladolid. A girl pupil told her father, who is a Spanish officer, of certain scandalous happenings in the convent schjool. The nuns, out of revenge, hanged the girl. References to the tragedy were strictly forbidden by the Spanish censorship, but the story was, inadvertently published by a San Sebastian paper. The girl was a day pupil at the convent school, and following her complaint, her father called on the Mother Superior, and threatened to withdraw the child. The Mother Superior promised to inquire, but the girl did not return home that night. When the nuns refused to allow a search tho father forced his way into the school, and with revolver in hand, finally came to the door where it group of nuns refused to allow him to enter. The father brushed the women aside, broke down the door, and found tpe daughter hanging at the end of a rope. Mad with grief, the father fired all the bullets the revolver contained, killing four sisters. He then rushed out "to inform the police.