SENSATIONAL REPORT OF CONVENT TRAGEDY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18452, 1 May 1928, Page 10

SENSATIONAL REPORT OF CONVENT TRAGEDY.

(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, April 30. The Paris correspondent of the “ Daily Chronicle ” 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 school. The nuns, out of revenge, hanged the girl. References to the tragedy are 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 the father forced his way into the school and, with revolver in hand, finally came to a door where a group of nuns refused to allow him to enter. The father brushed the women aside, broke down the door, and found his daughter hanging at the end of a rope Mad with grief, he fired all the bullets that the revolver contained, killing four Sisters. He then rushed out to inform the police.— Australian Press Association.