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Show youth reported Lost i swamp In danger of being frozen to death, Thomas Catmull. 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Catmull, 417 Oakley avenue, is lost in the swamps about ten miles west of tho city, according: to his companions, Mayor Gatehouse, 16 years of age, and Clarence Harvey, 17, who returned at an early iiour this morning for assistance in finding the boy. The three- boys started out to hunt geese and ducks at 5 o'clock yesterday morning, taking a horse and wagon and traveling about ten miles . west or" the city. .Vfier bunting for several hours. Carmull complained of being tired and sa id ho would go back to the wagon to wait until the other boys were ready to start home. Two hours later the Gatehouse Gate-house and Harvey boys made up their minds to return and made their way to the wagon, only to find that young Catmull Cat-mull had ndt yet reached there. They searched the immediate vicinity and waited at the wagon for four hours, but the missing lad failed to return. Finally, becoming alarmed, they drove back to Salt Lake for help. A rescue automobile party, made up by Deputy Sheriff Joseph kaleigh and Chauffeur Touv Mower, left for the scene (about :-"0 o'clork. While the officers ad-' i mittd that the youth may have accidentally acci-dentally shot himself or met with some mishap, fney believed he bad merely lost his v. ay and would be rescued in a lew hours. |