BOY’S DISAPPEARANCE.
SERIOUS CHARGE FOLLOWS. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, September 27. The mystery surrounding the disappearance of a boy from his home in Mount Eden on Wednesday afternoon was solved this morning when Detective Power arrested an hotel porter named Alfred Carter, aged 29, in Queen street, on a serious charge. The police state that the hoy answered a newspaper advertisement* for a position which was to carry a wamj of £1 a week and found. He interviewed a man as a result, and subsequent!v received a telegram asking him to keep an appointment in the city on Wednesday. The youth left hip home for the purpose but did not return on Wednesday night. His parents became alarmed, and reported the matter to the police. Yesterday morning the boy returned home about 10 o’clock. It is alleged that lie accompanied the man io a boarding house where lie spent Wednesday night. Carter will appear at the Police Court to-morrow morning on a charge of indecent assault on a. male.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20834, 28 September 1929, Page 14
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