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Can Such Things Be?

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
February
Year
1875
Copyright
Public Domain
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A horrible story of misery, incest and :le;ith comea from Lyme, Conneeticut. ihcre is evidently a fine field for nais-iionary eivilizatiou there, if half of Üiis disgusting recital is trne: " It has already beenstated thatby the buniing of a house in ihis town, a few nightii sinee, two of the Eleven ehildrenof the oï.ni'i- ]i(! Daniels - who had to flee for their lives, were ' frozen to death. Bilí flie most horrible part of the story has just come to light. Daniels had forbidden ïlis children, wlió had saitëtéd in liis absence for the necessities of life, to make their eoiidition luiovn to tho neighbors, and so defply were they in fear of his threats that they dared not seek refuge in tlu; house of a neighbor ; hut -vheu the; hous(; was burned, huddled in a dump of eedar bushes. None of the neighbors knew of the lire till moruing, and -n-hen they went to the scène they found tlm body of one giil, 13 years of age, frozen stiffto the ice. Her chemise, lier only garment, had been torn off by the younger ones to keep themaelres Tvawn. All that remained of tho garment on 'her person -was the yoke, nnd part of this, -vith portions of the skin and flesh, remained on the ice when the body was removed. Another child was so bndly hrmen that it has since died. "A still more terrible part remaina to be tokl. A daughter of Daniels, 17 years old, was one of the party saved, and, with her wn,s found clasped to her bosom, her babe 12 moïiths old. The father of thifi babe, it is asserted by the town authorifcieB of Lyme, is her own father. Daniels has fled tor parts unknown." ___ - - -

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus