STRANGE TRANCE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 125, 19 January 1932, Page 2

STRANGE TRANCE

CHILD WANDERS MILES AWAY FROM " HOME. JDENTIFIED BY BAKER. SYDNEY, Jant 10. John Heaton, of Short Street, Balmain, blossomed into a modern Sherlock Holmes to-day. He found a wandering child in the street, and, touched hy the little stranger's cries, decided to • find his parents. He did, in a little more than three hours. The boy was David Woods, aged six, of 'Cameron" Street, Balmain, who had a peculiar history. According to the baby's mother, David goes into a trance, once almost every weelc, and . then he wanders away. He has been found in hotels, being entertained hy men« old enough to be his grandfather; has wandered miles av/ay from his home, and has even stood on the tram lines, holding up traflic. Mr. Heaton, did not know anything of this to-day, when he saw David with his baby daughter, Agnes Janet Heaton, outside his home. The boy was crying pitifully.

"I want my daddy — he works on a boat," he sobbed. Baker Knew Him. He -did not know his . name nor where he lived, but Mr. Heaton thought David might lead him home. All he did, however, was to walk around the hlock, so^his resci^er took him to . the Balmain police station, where he still cried for his daddy. "He'll be claimed,"* said the sergeant; but Mr. Heaton was not satisfied. He walked from street to street, asking almost all he met if they knew a boy of David's description. Breadcarters and butchers, milkmcn and shopkeepers were all approached, until at last Mr. Heaton found a baker who recognised the description. Triumphant, he rushed baek to the police station, got David, and took him baek to his mother, who had organised a search party of five boys, who had seoured the district for hours, trying to find the wandering lad.