The Archive · 1939

Dead Child Mystery Remains Unsolved

Body Being Sought by Bubbling Well The body of the four-month old foreign boy, whose father is at present being detained at Bubbling Well police station pending completion of investigations into the cause of death of the child, has rot yet been found by detectives from the same station who have been searching for it since Friday morning, when the case first came to their notice.

The infant, who, according to his father Valdemar Dorf, an. unrecognized Dane. had not been given a name, reportedly died on the morning of May 27 in Dorfs rooms at 88 Nanyang Road. The father, according to his alleged statement. claims that he fed the child during the night but at about 6 a.m. the following day found that his son had died.

According to his statements to the police, Dorf had been separated from his Russiar wife on April 23. and since then had engaged a foreign nurse to look after the baby during the day whilst he was at his office, being an accountant with a large foreign firm

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