Found at a School

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 48, 26 February 1938, Page 4

Found at a School

SYDNEY’S KIDNAPPED CHILD United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. SYDNEY, Feb. 25. The kidnapped baby is Philip Powles, aged 2J years. His father was warned by telephone “Don’t make contact with the police or you might not see your son." The boy was found this morning at a private school near Narrabeeu, where ho had spent the night. Late yesterday afternoon 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. A nurse at the school received a telephone tnessage that the boy was on his way. She thought that the principal had arranged the matter, and took the boy in. She did not know until this morning that he had been kidnapped. The police believe that the kidnapper became frightened.

The infant son of Ronald Powles, cinema operator, was taken from his father's car at Narrabeeu, a seaside village ten miles north of Sydney. The kidnapper was reported to have telephoned the father demanding a ranßom of £3OO, and assuring the father that his son was unharmed.