WANTED HIS DAUGHTER.
+ | FATHER KTLLB HIMSELF. f LONDON, April o. i Apparently stricken T»> the absence icf his 17-year-old daughter S hie la, I who for several years had made her home with Air AY. J. Locke, the novelist. and his wife. Air Alfred Baines, a well-known London engineer, placed his head in a gas-oven and suffocated himself The Locke and Baines families were great friends, and Khiela became attached to Mi's Locke, who treated her practically as her adopted daughter. Sheila. n January, advertised her intention of assuming the surname Locke. Her father commenced to lodge legal objections, and sought to recover his daughter, but the niagis- | irate said he could not make an order, | as the girl was over 16. i The girl is at present living with j the Lockes in a villa at Cannes. Here she learned of her father’s death.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17014, 12 April 1923, Page 7
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