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Show Father Kills Bird Carrying off Baby GENEVA, April 14. Seizure of a Swiss peasant's baby bj a huge bird Identified as a condor is chronicled by the Oberlander Yolks Zeitung The mother, while weeding hr garden on the slopes of the high I Hasiiberg mountains, left the child sitting on a blanket on the grass Her I husband, seeing the cdndor swoop down and lift the infant into the air. ran for his army rifle and shot the bird, which fell so slowly that the youngster was only slightly injured The condor had a wing spread of 17 feet 5 Inches and the beak was 16'2 Inches in length. That it is a true condor, which Is a native of the South American Andes, is vouched for, according to the newspaper. b Professor Ochsenmaul . University of Berne It will be stuffed and placed in the Berne museum |