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COLUMNIST DR NELL DARBY TELLS THE TRAGIC STORY OF SEX-YEAR-OLD MARY JANE SEWELL, WHOSE UNSOLVED 1928 MURDER LED TO SPURIOUS ALLEGATIONS BEING MADE AGAINST HER OWN MOTHER AND FATHER

Sometimes, an event as horrific as a murder, particularly when it involves a child, can have lifelong repercussions. In the ease of Mary Jane Sewell, her parents could not live with knowing that

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