BODY IN A BOX.
DEATH OF LITTLE BOY. CASE OF CURIOUS FEATURES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 10, 5.5 p.m. Rondon. Sept. 8. An inquest was held at Portsmouth on the mummified body of George Smith, aged 3 years, who was found in a box m an attic after being missing for six weeks. Leonard Kearighan, fourteen years old, son of the occupant of the ‘house in which the body was found, was arrested. He made a statement to the police that Smith asked him for a drink and he carried the child upstairs, put him in a box, shut the lid and put the box under his bed. “I did not remember more about it until I had a dream in the cell and part of it came back,” he said. After being charged with causing Smiths death, Kearighan said: “They will think I did it purposely.” The inquest was adjourned. Smith’s parents are not acquainted with Kearighan.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1922, Page 5
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