The Corpse in the Safe.
Anything more distressing than the untimely death of a little boy of &e\en, which is just reported fiom Paris, it would be haul to imagine. The only son of a French tradesman was playing in his father's room, when he perceived that the safe was open. Jn a spirit of boyish fun lie got into it?. Presently the father came into tho room, and before leaving for his day's work locked the safe, the child keeping silence the while, Soon the little fellow was missed ; the police were called in, and a hue and cry raised. Next morning- the father opened the safe — to find his son a corpse. The moral, of course, is obvious ; but the story is horrible,
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 248, 21 March 1888, Page 9
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125The Corpse in the Safe. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 248, 21 March 1888, Page 9
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