A LOST CHILD.
MISSING SINCE FRIDAY.
A five-year-old boy has been missing I from his home since Friday night, and 1 his anxious parents, along with friends [ alid the police, have scoured the- city ever since for him in vain. J'he boy s name is Harold Smith, and his father is -Mr G. C. Smith. Aldred street. He is „ fair-haired little chap, with his locks I cut short. He was wearing a blue 1 jcrsev and black knickers, and his tect I iind head were uncovered. "Bobbie ' is tho name he is commonly known by. ;He came home from school at about ■ four o'clock on Friday, and played for a few minutes with his brothers and ' sisters. Ho then wandered out of tho house, and that is the last seen of : him so far as is known. At first his parents were merely uneasy, and then ■as the time wore on and Bobbie did I not come back, they became thoroughly ; alarmed. The police were advised of ' tho disappearance, and the search for 1 the mksing child began. All night on ! Friday wa.s the child searched for, but i without result. No one'had soon him — he had disappeared as mysteriously as ; "Will-o'-the-wisp. On Saturday the search was renewed, and kept up all I day yesterday, but tho missing child [ was not found. The parents, friends, j and police are baffled; they can only ; hope that some good Samaritan has ! taken charge of him. and on reading ! this will communicate to the parents or L police the child's whereabouts. The I address of Mr Smith is 42 Aldred j street, city, second house on the left ! from Durnam street.
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14407, 15 July 1912, Page 3
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278A LOST CHILD. Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14407, 15 July 1912, Page 3
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