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SYDNEY KIDNAPPING CASE. SYDNEY, Feb. 27. More than fifteen minutes before Philip Powles vanished from his father's car arrangements were made by telephone by an unknown man to send the child to the school where was found yesterday. The police are now making an intensive search for theman who put Philip on the bus which took him to the school. The infant son of Ronald Powles, cinema operator, was kidnapped from his father's car at Narrabeen, and was found yesterday morning at a private school near Narrabeen. An unknown man handed the boy to the conductor of a motor-bus which passes the school and asked that he should be left there. The kidnapper was reported to have telephoned the father demanding a ransom of £3OO, and assuring the father that his son was unharmed. The police believed that he later became frightened.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 79, 2 March 1938, Page 9
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145SEARCH TOR MAN. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 79, 2 March 1938, Page 9
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