Salt Lake Tribune | 1907-07-21 | Page 10 | Swans Guard Body of Infant

Swana Guard Body of Infant. Two stately swans and half a dozen brilliant plumaged ducks Circled and circled cir-cled about a wooden box that ttoaica on the lako In Central park yesterday aftonioon. Believing some kindly pcs0 had put food In tho box ror the mras, tho crowds that wore In rowboats uia not disturb tho graceful water fowl. For hoars tho box drifted about xiitn tho currents of tho lako. always accompanied accompa-nied by Us escort of birds. Then 1 ho nan Ooirahuo. who has chargo of tho parK water fowl, observed the strange actions of his pets and got a rowboat. Donahuo overtook tho box twentj feet from shore on. that part of the lako opposite op-posite West Seventy-seventh street, tin was horrified to find In It the body of -i baby about one week old. The body was taken to tho Arsenal police station In t no park, where Lieulonant McGIrr said lie bollcvcd the child had been dead two days. It Is a mystery to tho police How tho box Moated on tho lako two do-vs wit n-out n-out anyone discovering Its contents. Donahue Don-ahue says he had missed several of his swans and ducks during that period, and ho believes the birds remained with tnc box. :New York World.