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TWO WOMEN SUFFOCATED. t SERVANT'S SENSATIONAL STOUY. ARRESTS OF RELATIVES. Received December 17, 12.25 p.m. ROME, December 15. Dressed and bejewelled, and seemingly ready for a theatre or a dance, the dead bodies of millionairess Madame Cago and her adopted daughter, were found seated at a dining-tablo in a house in Rome. The police were informed by a servant girl who made an extraordinary statement. She said that Cago's three nephews, who were university students, were apprehensive that the fortune would go to the adopteil daughter. The nephews broke into the house, suffocated the women in their beds, then dressed the bodies, and carried them to the dining-room, afterwards lighting the Are to create an impression that, they wore suffocated by fumes. The sen-ant said that I she watched the proceedings from a I hiding-place. j The nephews and their father have bcou arrested.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14829, 17 December 1921, Page 5
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