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" The Shepherdstown Register "
Shepherdstown, Jefferson Co., WV.
Frid. Sept 28, 1888
Carried Off by an Eagle
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The baby of Farmer William Beattie, who lives on the Cimmarron River, in Kansas, was carried off by an eagle on Saturday. Beattie went to work in the morning, leaving in his digout his two children, one five years old and a baby aged two months. About noon Beattie returned home, and found his girl in tears. She said she had taken the baby into the yard, and left it while she went into the house. In a few minutes she heard a cry, and in looking out saw the baby "flying away," as she expressed it.
The father knew at once that an eagle had visited his home, and summoned his neighbors to the wooded banks of the river, for which the eagle had made. In about an hour the sound of a shot summoned the searchers togeather. One of the men had found the eagle, and was engaged in a deadly conflict with it. He had emptied his gun at the big bird and had broken a wing, and was using his gun as a club when reenforcement arrived. The eagle fluttered into the bush, and there the father saw the infant dead, the body horribly lacerated and part of it gone.
Note# Quite possibly his wife died giving birth to this 2 month old child. She is not mentioned at all and hopefully a 2 & a 5 year would not have been left alone if a mother was present.
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