BABE IN WILDERNESS.
RESCUED ALIVE AFTER FOUR DAYS' WANDERING. NEW YORK, July 6. A four-year-old girl has been found alive after having wandered alone for four days in the wilderness of Bear Mountains, in the Catskills Range, New York State. A eection of the searchers discovered the child asleep, with her clothes torn. She had been bitten by insects, and was very much sunburned and thin. Doctors said she had contracted bronchitis. Two platoons of State infantry, using bloodhounds and police dogs, aided in the search. They were helped by 3000 campers in the vicinity. These were mostly from the East Side slujns. The I place is one of the -wildest in the Statee.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 169, 18 July 1924, Page 5
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