BURIED ALIVE IN SAND

Chronicle (Levin), 21 January 1949, Page 4

BURIED ALIVE IN SAND

Press Assoctatiorj

Remarkable Survival Of Young Baby

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■■ ■, DUNEDIN, Jan. 20. ' Although completely buried in s.and ■among lupins on the Warrington Beach fpr IS houi-s from .about 6 o'c.loelc last evening, a 12-days-old baby had. suryived "the ordeaf when found by the police at noon today^. .The. , baby is a gil'l and was ruslied to' The Dunedin . Public Hospit'al 'in a police car. After nndergoing treatmen't" ' ' i® an -. oxygen tent, it was in a satsfateory condition tonight, A woman was questioned last night by the - police in eonneetioq with the inciden-t and • was later arrested. She will appear in Court in the morning. " It was a most extraordinary hap- • pening to be buried alive faee downward and still be alive so much later," said a seiiior police officer. "The 'baby was found by a small party of police officers, on a •' beach track ' through lupins. This lupin and serub covered grea extends for about a mile south of the beach entrance and at its widest point is about 460 yards deep. The infaut was lying in _a shallow hole ucooped out ut the side of the track and the disturbed sand and earth was seen by a member of the search party when he came to that partieular area." The baby was born at t|ie Publie Uospital 12 days ago and th'e motlier and ehild were discharged yesterday. The suspicions of a Warrington woman resident wero aroused when the woman, . with 'whom she had travelled out in tho train from Dunedin, returned from lialf an liour's walk along the beach without her infant. The plain .colthcs and uniformed branches of the Dunedin police began . incpiiries last evening at Warrington. Cluef Detective Hail was at .Ihe beach resort at 8.30 p.m. and there was a large ruimber of jxoJice officers there bv midnight. At 3.30 a.m., .which was first light, the men began searching.