SCOTTISH MYSTERY

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1929, Page 5

SCOTTISH MYSTERY

DAISY'S BODY IX COFFIN

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

OXOON. April 20

In a lonely one-roomed lint, perched atop ol the rugged Kincardine dill's, the Reverend Alexander Thomas ltell died a week ago. The police yesterday, when turning over an odd collection ol rubbish that was piled on the llo>r, were amazed to find concealed an ornate coffin, containing an inner sealed shell, in which there was the almost. perfectly mummilied hod.v of a liaoy hoy, who apparently died soon alter hirth. The (vflin must have lain there lor years.

I here was nothing oil the name-plate to suggest the identity. It contained only the inscription: “There's a home lor little children.”

'I he Rev. Alexander Roll was formerly in the Scottish Episcopal Church, but he turned a. Roman Catholic at the end ol the War. He had preached lielore King Edward and also before King George at All Saints Church, West of I .olid in. "Deceased had lived a hermit’s life in his lmt for a quarter of a century.

The police despair of fathoming the mystery. The body of the infant was dressed in a hand-embroidered frock. T lie inference is that the gruesome relic shared Rev Alexander Roll’s twenty years of lonely existence, and is believed to have been in some way bound up in the life of the hermit.