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Show y Connor Baby Found Starving, J Bruised, After 5-Day Absence ids; j HARSDALE, N. Y., July 17 Seriously ill of exposure and pr itarvation. Baby Bobby Connor, " pissing for five days, was found j )n a nearby woods yesterday. The !l-months-old baby is receiving jpecial medical attention today as ? (lie result of his trying experience, exper-ience, believed started by an at- 1 tempted abduction. ! "I am forced to believe that it , p.; must have been a kidnaping," B;r ia!d Captain Philip J. McQuillan, at : head of the Greenburgh police. arI;, ; Bobby was discovered in a "His father seemed stunned. Dr. C. W. Hunger, head of the Grassband's hospital at Eastview, to which the child was taken, said it appeared the child had had no' water in four days. "The bahy is in a very precarious condition but has a fair chance to recover," he said. He was given 100 cubic centimeters of his father's blood as the lad had lost 10 pounds, half his weight. Five days ago, after his nap, Bobby had gone to play with 3-year-old Ruth -Schwagerman at her home. About 5 p. m. the, girl's mother, Mrs. Howard Schwagerman, told her to take Bobby home. On the way back they played in a sandpile and failing to get Bobby to leave it, little Ruth went to tell Mrs. Connor to come and get hfm. When his father arrived at the spot the baby was gone. Y.'; i; " .- bramble thicket thick-et a half-mile back of his parents' par-ents' home, yesterday yes-terday aft e r--noon, by Sergeant Serg-eant Jerome Hogan, and an-, other officer, i Hogan believed that ttie child i might have i fallen in a well i in thah vifinifv I They found a handkerchief, some trampled pss, then saw the baby, who, 1 piey said, "sort of looked up at I "The boy was a mass of cuts W bruises," the officers said. Bis pink sun suit was torn. Wo picked him up and rushed him Lo Slhc- house. "There his mother fainted. We fraught her to, wrapped the boy k a blanket and rushed him to pe hospital. |