Yorkshire Gazette – Saturday 05 December 1896

Ghastly Discovery by a Shooting Party.

Close upon dusk on Wednesday evening, when  a shooting party was concluding operations in  Wombwell Wood, the estate of Mr Wentworth,  Wentworth Castle, a gentleman came across the  dead body of youth in an advanced state  decomposition, and it was identified that of  Willoughby Longbottom, aged 19, of Platte  Common, who had been missing over nine weeks.

He was of weak intellect and had often wondered away.