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Show l'utli from a Cat. The people of youth Enlewoo;! are on a still hunt utter tlie cats in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of that villne, ami one large Mitltese in partienlar is doomed to an nn timely end. That animal, th'j property proper-ty of Bernard Sehram and his wife, killed their five mouths old child .Saturday .Satur-day night, and half th residents of the village believe the Mi no tmeked the infant's in-fant's breath from i U body. The Sehrams resida on Vincennes road, between Eighty-seventh and Ei;,'hty-ninth .streets. They retired at the usual hour Saturday night, leaving the baby in the cradle, at their bedside. I They were awakened during the night ! ! by the child's labored breathing, ful- J lowed by a piteous, htirW inoaii. As ; , Mr. Sehram arose and struck a liuht ths -large house cat h-uped from the cradlo and escapi'd through the door. The infant in-fant was lying still, wilh its little hand clenched and its face blue from huiToch- '. tion. Dr. Tallman was hatilv suin-nioned, suin-nioned, hut pronounced the child dead. : lie said that entTocation was the cause. and tliat the cat. attracted by the warmth ' of tho child's body, probably lay down : on tho baby's face and smothered it. i Chicago Times. i " -. , . i . |