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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
April
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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An instance of extraordinary preence of mind on the part of a sevenyear-old girl is reported by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The girl's name is Agnes McCullough. Her grandmother, a woman of seventy years, had shown signs of mental aberration for several weeks, but no one had thought of her as liable to commit violence. One morning, however, when Agnes and the old lady were alone in an upper room, the grandmother seized a butcher-knife which had been lying on the table, and ran for the child, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, partially dressed. The insane woman grabbed the girl by the hair and screamed: "Now, 111 kill you! You are none of my children!" The little girl, with intuition remarkable for her years, realized that she was in the grasp of an insane person. "Grandma, don't get the blood on the bedclothes. Wait till I get a towel," she said. The woman released her hold on the child's hair, and sbe ran down into the kitchen, where she told her mother. The two humea to the pĆ³lice station, and an ambulance removed the old woman to the hospital.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News