A SHOCKING CASE
| ORASY FROM STARVATION. [press" association] (Received May 10, at 7.50 p m.) Brisbane, May 10. A girl lost in the oush list week was found in a' shocking condition, unconscious,' lying in the glariug sun and covered with ants. """ She died shortly after she was discovered. '" d t An investigation revealed the fact that the girl's mother and two sisters were lyingjn a wretched hut, djirgof starvation. Each was demented. They were practically diving skeletons. The father died.at Xmas while engaged in a ring barking'contrac^, and the women continued the contract, but hard work and insufficient nourishment drove them all crazy, the elder girl wandering into the bush.
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West Coast Times, Issue 11289, 11 May 1899, Page 2
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