YOUNG BOY MURDERED

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1924, Page 3

YOUNG BOY MURDERED

BODY SHOCKINGLY M ITT LATER. IUaTBAI.IAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) MELBOURNE. August 20. Mutilated in a slinking manner tlie I , 1 1\ ul Archie Mount, aged nine and a half, who disap] eared at Spi'ingvale on Saturday, was found by his mother who had assisted ill the seauh for the

In company with his brother Ivan. Archie set out to gather gum leaves in the Springvale cemetery and altei 1 reeecdilig some distance Archie said lie lelt tired and would wail till his brother reliil'ne.l, with the leaves. While the hoys were talking, a mutoi ear drew up and spoke lo the boys. Ivan walked on when, after lie hail eovered one hundred yards, he turned round and saw Arehie conversing "ill a man. but thought- nothin- of this a: I lie time. When lie returned in !c--. than ten minute.'. Archie, the motor iiir. the stranger and all had disappear-

SeVcral hours Inter, when Archie ailed to appear. Ivan told his mothei •f tue occurrence and she reported it .0 the police. The body was found in Daiulenon‘reak in about, a foot of water. Then ••ere several bruises on the leg and lead, and the body wa- eonph tely nr. lot lied. The neither i- the widow ol a mem ci of the A.1.E..

EUR Til ER DETAILS. M ELI ID ERNE. August 20

The clothes of the dead hoy wen found in a boiler house on the Sundown Racecourse, half a mile IT out the spat where the body was found. It is believed the holly was mutilated previous to death and that the hoy was drowned.

The police are hampered in their investigations owing to the site of the tragedy being inundated to a depth of six feet through the heavy rains since. A curious feature is that the site where the body was toinid, and nI - • the boiler house, were examined on Sunday and the searchers are positive tin! neither the body nor tin vlotncs were Mien there.