A demand made by the local postmaster" to see the woman to whom a monthly Civil War pension fof $40 had been issued regularly by the United States Government, resulted in the disclosure that" the woman had died more than two years ago and in the arrest of her daughter.
Taken into custody to-day, Mrs. Myrtle Lattimer, §0 year-old local resident, told the local authorities that she had kept the body of her dead 80-year-old mother hidden order.to collect the pension. Her mother, she stated. died on January 19, 1932. She had left the body in' bed for several months and finally decided to dispose of it.
Mrs. Lattimer declared she had then cremated the upper part of her mother's body and dismembered the rest, which she placed in a trunk in her home.
No charges have as yet been filed against her—Reuter.
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