Eureka Reporter | 1906-10-12 | Page 4 | Strangely Led to Baby's Body

STRANGELY LED TO BABY S BODY clinton la guided by some strange power mr and mrs james donohue of this city journeyed to a wild spot on the shore of the mississippi river and there found the body of their baby daughter or which parties of men had been dragging the river tor sev eral days the child was knocked from the deck of their houseboat and drowned and all efforts to recover the body had been unsuccessful the mysterious force led the grief stricken parents to arise at five clock in the morning although they had made no plans to do so without saing a word to each other they got into a skiff and the man began rowing down the stream in silence they con til aed tor two miles until they reached beaver island on the upper side of the island stands a reat cottonwood tree whose branches rise high above the other foliage on the shore straight for the tree the skiff went and when its bow touched the gnarled roots which extend into the water father and mother turned to see the little dress of the baby caught on a jagged root just under the surface the body lay on the sand another thing which has aroused he curiosity of students of the mys cerious Is the fact that the body was aund on the third anniversary of the s birth