BABES IN A BRICK-KILN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18861, 14 May 1923, Page 10

BABES IN A BRICK-KILN

LOST FOR TWO DAYo, LONDON, April 29. Two children, Davis Oaskeil, .aged four years, and Stanley Taylor, aged three years, went out to play at-Chorlton, Manchester, on Wednesday afternoon. They were seen at a brickfield 'at v -nbo p.m.,' and then disappeared. , .. A search began in the evening, and-in-creasing numbers joined until over. 100 were assisting the police. There , was little doubt that the children had fallen into one of the ’ deep ponds about the brickfield. These were dragged, but without result.

The fire brigade pumped out the water, and still there was no trace. The superintendent and inspector of police, who had been searching continuously for 48 hours, thought it useless to.,try, longer, believing that the children had somehow been taken out of the district.. Then a workman heard cries from a kiln .50 yards from the children’s homes. The brickwork was demolished, and the missing little ones discovered in an underground passage, screaming for their •'mammies.” They were uninjured, but very hungry. One lay on the clay holding the other’s; hand. They miM have penetrated the narrow flue d.yring the temporary Withdrawal of the damper, and fallen asleep in the darkness. They must have waked, olteh Tn the 48 hours, but the darkness must have deluded them until hunger made them cry. . - ' , '