STOLEN BOY MYSTERY

Evening Star, Issue 19662, 15 September 1927, Page 3

STOLEN BOY MYSTERY

| TO I'M) IN' A CELLAB. .Mystery attaches to the. disappearance uml discovery of u thrcc-ycar-old Birmingham boy, William Homer, who -.vas found in a cellar at a. timlier yard wiihin ;i few paces ot his homo alter havin'' been missed lor two days. lie disappeared alter he had hocn seen in a local park, and a close police search had tailed to yield any trace ol him. Then little girls at [day hoard erics I'roni the timber yard and called Iho attention of the caretaker to them, lie found the buy hint; in a narrow space hh;h up on Ihe top ot some, laths in a position he could not possibly have reached umyded. He was unhurt except fur StTH tchcd fa rc. j 'Hie hoy’s lirst words to his mother j were: “ I hare, been to sleep.” After--1 wards Ids explanation indicated that, a man look him into the meat, marked' | and hit him with a whip, but later gave \ him a banana. 11 is known that the : boy is very fond of following drovers 1 wfih herds of cattle. There is no way into the vard except over a gate about 12ft, high. The boy was well nourished, and a doctor said that ho bud been fed recently. Workmen were in the timber yard until fj p.m., but the gates were closed early in the afternoon. It is surmised that the boy may have been kidnapped and put into the cellar when the line and cry became too intense.