DEATH RIDDLE
BOY'S BODY FOUND Because of the strange circumstances surrounding the disappearance and death of Caleb Chapman, a 13-year-old gipsy boy, a pathologist is to examine the skeleton of the lad, which was found on a farm at Westerham Hill, near Sevenoaks, Kent. The body was discovered on waste land, hidden among nettles sft. high, MOO yards from the boy's caravan home, from which ho had disappeared 10 weeks previously. The boy's clothes were in rags, and a metal luck charm was the only means of identification. In a hoij-pieking camp at Horsmonden. on the Kent-Sussex border, the boy s father, Arthur Chapman, told a reporter: "Caleb left our caravan soon after breakfast to visit his brother at Westerham. Apparently ho returned by bus to the end of the farm road leading to the caravan. From that point nothing was seen of him."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23181, 29 October 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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144DEATH RIDDLE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23181, 29 October 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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