118 Timehri. 



Any particulars to be given to Mr. J. Schulz, c/o Messrs. Booker 

 Bros., Water Street, Georgetown, or any Police Officer. 



Eight days elapsed from the time of her disappearance without 

 anything being heard of the whereabouts of the child Molly, but on 

 the ninth day news of the most startling nature reached the city of 

 Georgetown, and was published in a local newspaper to the effect that 

 the body of the child was found not 200 yards away from the footpath 

 which many feet had trodden since the time of the child's disappearance 

 and at the same spot where the shoes were found the Tuesday before, and 

 also what was subsequently disproved by medical testimony that the 

 ribs of the child were staved in by some heavy instrument. During the 

 days following the police were severely criticised by a section of the local 

 Press and members of the public on their failure to discover the child. 



FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED. 

 Arrests and Inquest. 

 The first arrests were of a middle-aged East Indian man named 

 John Pariag, otherwise known as Bhodan and an elderly East Indian 

 man named Gungadeen, followed a little later by that of Jugdeo, the 

 brother of the manager of Noitgedacht, one Sewdin, and still later an 

 alleged obeahman who answered both to the name of Sumara and 

 Samootar. For police reasons however it was only the last mentioned 

 who figured in the dock of the La Grange Magistrate's Court when on the 

 6th February the inquest on Moll) 7 Schulz was begun before His Wor- 

 ship Mr. H. K. M. Sisnett, Stipendiary Magistrate of the West Coast 

 Judicial District and a jury : — 



Evidence as to the disappearance and discovery of the body 

 having been given the Coroner read the report of Dr. Rose, Government 

 Bacteriologist and summed up as follows : — 



CORONER'S SUMMING UP. 

 Open Verdict. 

 Addressing the jury the Coroner said that from the doctor's report 

 they gathered that he could not state the cause of death There were no 

 signs of drowning and the child was probably killed about the time 

 when she was lost. The doctor also told them that the immersion in the 

 water took place after the death of the child. The evidence that they had 

 threw no light on the subject whatsoever except that she went out with 

 the boys and they sent her back and she disappeared. It was a very 

 curious thing that none of the servants or anybody in the house seemed 

 to know anything about the matter. The police had made enquiries 

 and they had been unable to put before the Court any evidence that 

 would tend to throw any light on the affair. From the doctor's report 

 they could fairly come to the conclusion that the child was killed. There 

 were no marks of violence and the child appeared to have been done to 

 death in a manner which the doctor could not tell. Probably she died of 



