A PAINFUL CASE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9018, 4 December 1907, Page 2

A PAINFUL CASE .

A painful case, says the Press, is. being investigated 'by tho police a(. New Brighton. It appears that a man described as a bookmaker, and a woman with two children, aged respectively about 5 years and twelve months, took a furnished house i;i Wilson street, New Brighton,' about a fortnight ago, Mr A, 11, Wyatt, tho carrier, being employed tdl take their luggage down from a house iu 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 ihaj< his'mother had'gone a Way on thj Friday afternoon and had not comij back. Mrs Sincox at once went into the house and found.the baby on'"a bod without any bedclothes aw.{ with a baby's bottle, in the bottom of which were the remains of some milk which had curdled. 1 ' Other than'this there was absolutely nd food iu 'tliti house, and the children had been without'any food or attmu tion from tho Friday afternoon till tho Saturday morning, the eldest boy, when it became dark, going to sleep beside, his little brother. Mrq Sincox at once took the children tq her house, where their wants were attended to, and sre is still taking care of them. Neither of the adults has since put in an appearance at the house, and it is reported that the man left for Wellington on Thursday last. The childron will probably bo brought before the Court and tho police in the meantime are prosecuting inquiries as to tho whereabouts of tho missing couple.