TRAGIC PRANK.
BOY LEAVES INFANT IN BOX. London, Sept. 8. At an inquest at Portsmouth on the mummified body of George Smith, aged three years, who was found in a box in an attic after being missing for six weeks, Leonard Kearighan, aged 14 years, a 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. He carried the child upstairs and put him in a box, shut the lid and put the box under his bed. “I did not remember anything more about it until I had a dream in the cell, and part of it came back.” After being charged with causing the death Kearinghan said: “They will think I did it purposely.” The inquest was adjourned. The Smith parents are unacquainted with Kearinghan. —(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 230, 11 September 1922, Page 5
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148TRAGIC PRANK. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 230, 11 September 1922, Page 5
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