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Show IS Who Ran Over a Child And Threw the Body Over a Fence i Matteawan, N. Y., Aug. 16 The police here are hunting for some clew js to the Identity of an nutomobilist I j whom they charge A-ith killing the i 3 -year-old son of George Verdi, a well- J lo-do farmer. I The child was plaving by the road- ! side when the automobile whizzed ! by. A projecting bolt caught Ms clothes, and he wnd dragged beneath the wheels, which paused over his body, killing him instantly. 1 According lo tho police, the driver slopped the car. picked up the baby's body and threw it over the fencw onto a lawn beside the road. Persons on a cross street, too far away to identify the automobilisl. saw him stop the machine, pick up something from the road and loss it ;-..-lcie. They thought it was a trifling ! obstruction of some kind, and paid no attention. A few moments later l lie baby s body was found on the j lawn |