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Show Condor Seizes Swiss Infant, But Is Killed Bird Swoops Uown and Is Flying Away With Babe When Father Fa-ther Shoots; Child Rescued . Only Slightly Injured GENEVA. April 14 Kelaure of a Swiss peasant's baby by a huge bird i Identified as a condor ia chronicled . by the Oberlaniler Voiks Zpltung7 The I mother, while weeding her garden on j the slopes of the high Haltherg moun- i Ulna, left the child sitting on a blan- I ket on the grass.. Her husband, see-; Ing the condor swoop down and lift the Infant Into the air, ran for his army rifle and shot th bird, which fell so slowly thst th youngster was only allghtly Injured. The condor had a wing spresd of i IT feet S Inches and the beak was t I Inchea In length. That It la a true i condor, which is a native of the South j American Andes. Is vouched for. sc- cording to the newspaper, by Irofes- i sor Ochaenmaul, University or Bern ornithologist. j It will he Huffed and placed In the i Bern museum. I |