Young Boy Lived By Himself In Shed
(Rec. 11.35 a.m.)MELBOURNE, This Day. A seven-year-old boy, unable to talk and clothed only in an old blanket in which holes had been out for the head and arms, was found recently living by himself in a tin shed. The boy is reported to have been disowned by his parents because they thought he had been changed for another boy at birth. Commissioner J. Evan Smith, of the Salvation Army, said that the boy was becoming “civilised” in the care of a Salvation Army officer. When found the boy had no toys and did net know what to do with fruit when it was given to him.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 July 1947, Page 8
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