A PITIFUL CASE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 7 December 1907, Page 3

A PITIFUL CASE.

A painful case is being investigated by the police at New Brighton (Christchurch). It appears that a man described as a bookmaker, and a woman with two children, aged respectively about five years and 12 months, took a furnished house in Wilson Street, New Brighton, about a fortnight ago. Mr A. H. Wyatt, the carrier, being employed to take their luggage down from a house in Linwood., On Saturday morning last the eldest child, a very intelligent boy, went to the house next door, occupied by a Mrs Sincox, and asked for some food for himself and the baby, relating the pitiful story that his mother had gone away on the Friday afternoon and had not come back. Messrs Sincox at once went into the house and found the baby on abed without any bed-clothes and the baby’s bottle, in the bottom of which were the remains of some milk which had curdled. Other than this there was not absolutely food in the house, and the children had been without any food or attention from the Friday afternoon till the Saturday morning, the eldest boy, when it became dark, going to sleep beside his little brother. Mrs Sincox at once took the children to her house, where their wants were attended to, and she is still taking care of them. Neither of the aduits have since put in an pearance, and it is reported that the man left for Wellington on Thursday last. The children will probably be brought before the Court this morning, and the police are prosecuting inquiries as to the whereabouts of the missing couple.