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Show BOY LOSES LIFE IN J8BMN RIVER Eight-Year-Old Charlie . Starklc Is I Drowned In Treacherous I Stream. Salt Lake. May 27. Drowned In th Jordan river, within a block of his home, the body of Charlie Sfarkle, S yenrs of age, of 15 River street, was recovered h Patrolman Olson Thursday Thurs-day nlchL It hns hern removed to the undertaking parlors of O'Donnell & Ox With a pla unite the boy had gone to the bank ot the river to fish. He wns seated at a point where the bank? of tho stream are steep, ami with a warning cry he slid Into the river The playmate ran screaming for help to the home nf the parents. Tho mother, who has been sick for somo time, was in bed and unable to respond re-spond N'olthbors hearing the cries of the child ran to the bank nf the river, riv-er, but all traces of Charlie had vanished. van-ished. I The police were noilflnrj and Patrolman Patrol-man Olson. Hendricks. Griffin and Patrol Driver Sullivan armed wlih grappling hooks, hurried to the scene of I he drowning. Tho patrolmen searched for more than nn hour, whm the hook used by Pntrolruan Olson caught In the buv's clothing Tho body of the child was raised to the surface nnd returned to the arms oT the grief-strlcKen father. Ho hurried with the body to his home. .The grief of the mother, unable to leave her bed, when tho body of tho child was placed beside her wns heartrending. heart-rending. She fainted repeaU-dl. Arrangement Ar-rangement for tho funeral ' have a yet not boon made. |