BOY ON MURDER CHARGE
INFANT SHUT UP IN BOX. FOUND AFTER SIX WEEKS. A- and N.Z. * LONDON. Sept. 8. An inquest was held at Portsmouth on the mummified body of George Smith, aged three years, found in a box in akx attio after he had been missing from home for six weeks. Leonard- Kearinghara, 14 years old, oon of the occupant of the house in which the body was found, was arrested. In a statement to the police he said Smith asked him for a drink. He carried the child upstairs, put him into a box, shut the lid and put the box under the bed. , "I did not remember anything more about it," he said, " until I had a dream in a cell and part of it came back." Alter being charged with causing the death of Kearinghara he said, " They'll think I done it purposely." The inquest was adjourned. Smith's parents were not acquainted with Kearingham.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18192, 11 September 1922, Page 7
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