OCR Text |
Show CHILD IS DROWMED III JOSEPH CANAL Baby Boy of Krs. William Carter Wades Into Stream and Is Pound Dead. RICHFIELD. Utah, March 19. News haa been received at Richfield of a distressing dis-tressing accident last Sunday evening about dusk at the town of Joseph, fourteen four-teen miles south of this city. Lawyer G. T. Bean of Richfield drove to the home of William Carter at Joseph. A canal runs through the town 'between th street and th house, and Bean had crossed this canal and was unhitching un-hitching bis horses when Mrs. Vary Carter Dunn, who was in the house, told him she had missed her elgh teen-months-old boy five minutes before, and had failed to find him. Charles Robinson, who happened to be there, went down the canal a hundred yards, waded back towards the house fifty yards, and found the child in the water dead. The infant had evidently waded in near a foot bridge Close to the house. The canal is six feet wide, but there was only four laches of water. The current was strong enough to carry the baby fifty yards down. Mrs. Mary Carter Dunn, mother of the boy, was recently divorced from her husband and awarded the custody of U child. - t ' |