While State police and citizens with grappling irons attempted to recover his body from the Philmont reservoir at Hudson. New York, 10-year-old Robert Craven watched them from the shore. The efforts of the searchers were ended by reports that Robert had returned to his home. Robert went swimming in defiance of his parents’ orders. Afraid to go home after his 12-year-old brother reported him drowned, he swam to the shore and hid in a nearby wood. For a whole day he subsisted on nothing but a box of biscuits. Then hunger compelled him to return home. He confessed to a police officer that from time to time he had watched the search for his body.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23320, 12 October 1937, Page 17
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