BABY DISAPPEARS
DISCOVERY OF BODY.
BECAME LOST IN SCRUB
(Australian tress Association.)
SYDNEY, May 31
The three-year-old daughter of the
/Rev. Noel Cloutt disappeared on May 10th. from Belmont, near Newcastle, ' since when she had not been traced, and it was general'y belioved.itJiat she had been kidnapped. The child’s body was found to-day, two miles from her home, in an advanced state of decomposition. | As recently as Thursday Inst, her j hither received a letter demanding £2/50 for the return of his child. The .letter has ben handed over to the | police. i The police assert that there are no marks of violence or of foul play. Tt is presumed that the child became lost in the scrub, and died of 1 exposure and starvation. | The letter about the two hundred and fifty pounds is regarded as only ft heartless hoax.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19320601.2.27
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1932, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
141BABY DISAPPEARS Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1932, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in