CHILD'S BODY FOUND

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 68, 22 April 1929, Page 8

CHILD'S BODY FOUND

Australian Press Association.

IN HERMIT PRIEST'S HOUSE. Mysterious Affair At Home.

LONDON. April 20. Tn a lonely one-roomed hut perched atoji of the rugged Kincardine cliffs, the Rev. Alexander Thomas Bell died a week ago. The police yesterday, when turning over an old collection of rubbish pileel 011 the floor, were amazed to find concealed an ornate coffin, contahiing an inner sealed sliell, in which was the almost perfeetly mummified bod.v of a bab.v bo.v. who apparentlv died soon after birth. The coffin must have lain there for vears. There was aiothing 011 the nameplate to suggest tlie identity of the remains. It eontained onlv tlie inscription, "There's a home for little children." Bell was formerlv in the Scottish Episcopal Church, but turned Roman Catbolic at the end of tlie wai'. He bad preached before Ivings Edward and George at All Saints, West London . He bad lived a liermit's life in the hut for a quarter of a century. The police despair of fathoming the mystery. The body was dressed in a liand embroidered froelc. The inferenee is that tlie gruesome relic shared Bell's lonclv existenee and is helieved in some way to have been bonnd up in the life of the hermit.