LOST CHILDREN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17038, 11 May 1923, Page 7

LOST CHILDREN.

SEARCH FOR TWO DAYS. LONDON, April 2-9. ’Four-year-old Davis Gaskell and three-year-old. Stanley Taylor went out to play at Chorlton, Manchester, on W ednesday afternoon. They were 1 seen at a brickfield at 4-30 p.m., and then disappeared. A search began in the evening, and increasing numbers ioined until over ICO were assisting the police. There was little doubt that the children had fallen into one of several deep ponds about the brickfield. These were drag ged. but without avail. The lire brigade pmnped out the water, and still there was no trace. The 'superintendent ami 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 j kiln oQ yards from the children’s j hemes. The brickwork wag demolish j ed, and the missing little ones disi covered in an underground passage, | screaming for their “ mammies.” j They were uninjured, but very hun- ; "ry. One lav on the dav holding the j other’s hand.' ! They must have penetrated the nari row flue during the temporary withdrawal of the damper, and fallen • asleep in the darkness. Thev must have* waked often in the 48 hours, but the darkness must have deluded them i until hunger made them cry.