The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-21
BODY OF CHILD IS
 FOUND UNDER DOOR
 BLOWN FROM BARN

DanbUry, Conn.,, Jan. 21-After4 C10r police and SO residents, aided by blood-t hounds had searched this town, thes cemetery, the surrounding woods and many farms for Harold Gustavson, five years old, his body was found late yesterday afternoon where he had been frozen to death under a. barn door that had fallen upon him. By his side was his little red sled. k
 Mayor Anthony Sunderland led the search that began Monday night when the boys father, George s. Gustav. son, produce merchant, living at 4 that the lad had not been home tos supper The first two policemen sent out to seek Harold learned that ne- gro had been seen entering the ceme- tery late yesterday afternoon holding a small boy by the hand. x
 The police chief reported this fact to Mayor Sunderland, and he ordered 12 policemen to be taken from their postsE and assigned to a search of the ceme-l tery. With lanterns they went through the aisles of graves and searched the vaults that were opened, 4 Mayor Sunderland leading them
 Boy Not In Cemetery
 At midnight it became certain that Harold was not in the cemetery. By that time all of the neighbor of the Gutavon family were aroued, and they and other reidents began a thorough search of the city.
 Mrs. Gustavson feared that her boy who had been coasting on hill in the afternoon. might have fhitched" on to a farmers wagon and, being un- able to release his s.hitch,' had been dragged out into the country. Men in automobiles and carriages started out after midnight to call at all the to every place within a radius of 10 miles of the city, even to other towns. but no trace of the child was found
 Mayor Sunderland, who had been leading the search in the city all night obtained two bloodhounds from Dr. L. G. Knox, yesterday morning and at the Guatavson home they got the scent of the boy from his clothes. Then they were started of, with a large crowd following.
 B1oodhounds On Trail
 They went directly to the hill upon which Harold had been coasting the previous afternoon, and this fact caus- ed the hopes of the searchers to rise. From the hill they wandered through the city, into back yards and across fields, making such a route that the mayor was convinced they were of the trail-that Harold could not possibly have made such a distance.
 TeIegraIns and telephone messages then were sent to every settlement in this part of Connecticut to be on the lookout for Harold Gustavson. Tears were expressed that taaegboy hadSbeen Kidnapped
 George E. Bruntage living across the street from the Gustavson home went to his rear yard late this after noon to hang a large door that had been blown from his barn the previous afternoon. The door had been blown | off SO that it fell outward and rested l upon foot of snow.
 Struggled Under Door.
 MT. Bruntage hanled the doer up l and then saw. under 1t a. mass of tam l gled clothes Then the sled was re- veaIed, and MT Bruntage. who had i been out all last night searching for Harold, knew that he had found the | boys body. He had frozen to death | after a vain. struggle to release him l self.
 It was apparent that Harold, drag | ging his sled, was crossing the yard | on his way home to supper when, as | he passed the barn, the door was | blown off and fell on him. He was | less than a hundred and fifty feet l from his home.
 The fall of the door did not kill the | child. Tn the snow were the marks, of his struggle to free himself.
 When Mrs. Gustavson saw the body ! she collapsed and last night she was | under the care of physicians. Her | condition was considered serious