Ogden Sun | 1905-11-28 | Page 1 | Kept a Dead Body in Her Room

ghastly discovery in home of eccentric woman los angeles cal nov 27 tho death ot mrs liora thompson an aged and eccentric woman has ceceal d a ghastly secret la her little cottage on boyle heights in a store room 0 tho cottage covered with rubbish was found a hermetically sealed bot containing the corpse of her daughter who died 27 years ago the box is but three fet ions and the body ot the young woman had been dismembered the lolloping loping lol inscription was engraved on a silver plate and baited on tho box liora ii I i thompson died december 1877 aged 27 years 2 months one day the box was opened by an undertaker and a dia interment certificate signed F R boutell undertaker am hersl masa nov 1 1881 found the body had been disinterred for shipment to lodi calif but was brought to los angeleki Ange lefi by mrs thompson chwi ho settled here twenty years ago and had been kept in her cottage where aho lived all alono