AGED MOTHER’S SORROW
DESIRE TO FIND SON. WISH NOT GRANTED. SYDNEY', June 21. An aged mother's wish to find her lest son and hand to him her savings | before she died will never be gratified. I Her search has ended in the discovery that he was drowned in the Clarence River some months ago. The mother is Mrs. Bridget Smyth, of Torrensville, South Australia, and tne son was Matthew Aloysius Smyth, whose body was found in the Clarence last November. The son left his mother’s I home 13 years ago. Recently the I mother requested the police to try to J trace her son, who was a returned sol- [ <iier. It. was through the Returned I Soldiers’ League that the identity of | Smyth was established. At the inquest on Smyth last November it was found I that he had apparently lost his way | and walked over the edge of a wharf I into the river.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 155, 3 July 1934, Page 9
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