MISSING GIRL

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 290, 7 September 1928, Page 6

MISSING GIRL

IDENTITY OF BODY ESTABLISHED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, September 5. On January 22, ,4927, Irma Lorraine Timins, aged eight and a half years, disappeared from her parents’ home at New Brighton, and although diligent search was made tiie missing child was never seen , again. On July 31, 1928, a party of boys found the skeleton of a child partly covered by drifting sand at an isolated spot about a mile and a half from the beach. At the inquest to-day the evidence tendered satisfied the Coroner that the remains wore those of the missing child Inna Timins, and he gave a verdict accordingly, adding that there was no evidence as to tiie cause of death. . Identification was proved by a lock of hair and malformation of the teeth. The child had been delicate and was subject to fits, and it was not unusual for her to stray from home, reluming later. This day she did not return. No clothes were found on the skeleton, but it was suggested by tiie Coroner that this subnormal child, might have taken off her clothes at night. Medical evidence was that there were no injuries apparent to show the cause of death.