KIDNAPPED?

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 237, 27 May 1932, Page 8

KIDNAPPED?

STRANGE DIS APPEAR AN CE OF CLERGYMAN'S BABY GIRL. TRACKERS FIND NO TRACE. SYDNEY. Neither the black tracker nor the bloodhound engaged in the search for three-years-old Betty Cloutt, who disappeared from Belmont, have succeeded in locating the child. She is the daughter of a Waverley clergyman. Police came back to headquarters to report that they had made no progress. An army of searchers scoured the scrub for three days. Alarm has turned to despair in the five days since Betty was last seen. Mystery surrounds the baby's disappearance. Each day brings a flock of fresh theories. Messages from spiritualists and mysterious 'phone calls lead the popice around in a circle. A thousand searchers declare emphatically that the child is -not within a radius of three miles of her grandmother's home, from which she disappeared. Was She Kidnapped? Temporarily rejecting the theory that the child had wandered, the police examined the possibilitly of kidnapping. A strange car had been seen, but inquiries disposed of the assumption that the occupants of the car had kidnapped the child. Countless interviews lead back to the starting point. There is a lack of motive and an absence of even the most slender clue. Every possible hiding place, waterholes, culverts, old shaeks of weekenders, and disused pit workings have been searched to no avail.