YOUNG BOY STRANGLED.
WAYLAID ON ERRAND. NEW SOUTH WALES' CRIME. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Feed. 10.5 p.m.) SYDNEY. May 29. The body of Percival Garrett, aged five vears, wars found in some scrub near his parents' residence at Arncliffe. Death had been caused by smothering. The boy had been sent on an errand to a" shop a short distance from home, and his prolonged absence caused a search to be made, when the body was discovered. The police state that there is no doubt that the child was asphyxiated by the pressure of a hand round the throat.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18412, 30 May 1923, Page 9
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