Evening star., 1937-02-27
KIDNAPPED BOY,2,
IS FOUND DEAD
Body of Argentine Baby in
Pig Pen Near Parents
Estate.
BY the Associated Press.

LA PLATA, Argentina, February 27.
The unclothed body of Baby Eugenio
Peyrera Iraola, whose three-day kid
naping stirred Argentina as the Lind
bergh case gripped the United States,
was found today in the CRIME of a
pigpen on the Baronial Estancia Of
his wealthy parents.
The little body, bearing a scalp
wound and a cut on one leg. was
discovered in an outlying part of
La Sorpresa," his parents great
estancia. about mile ana half from
the house.
The chubby arms were crossed over
the chest. The clothing was not
found.
An immediate examination was
begun at the estancia, where the
blue-eyed, 2-year-old baby lived with
his parents and six brothers and
sisters, to determine the exact cause
of death
1t was believed he had been killed
Thursday. the day after he was
kidnapped.
A laconic communique from provin-
cial police, who have searched the rich
resort countryside for three frenzied
days for some trace of the child or his
abductors, said merely the body had
been found
1t gave no theories as to who car
ried the boy away from the flower
bordered garden of the estancia short
ly after 7 o'clock last Wednesday eve
ming. while the baby's mother left his
side to greet her husband, a wealthy
sportsman and horse fancier, upon his
return from another of his ranches.
Several Suspects Held.
The announcement said nothing to
indicate which. if any. of several sus-
poets now held was believed RESPONSE
BILE for the crime.
But it was known the police, at first
believing remnants of the kidnap band
of the late "Pibe CabeZa"-"Babv
Face") ")-might be responsible, had in
clined to the theory the abduction
was the work of moral outcast.
One wandering peon, who vanished
from the estancia environs about the
same time the baby disappeared, was
piled anew with questions
There were few clues Most of
them centered around the childish
story of 5-year-old Miguel, Eu-
genios brother who said he saw
"a man" holding the baby in his
arms a few minutes before he dropped
from sight.
Police refused persistently to con-
firm reports of ransom negotiations.
Greatest Manhunt Ends.
1t was a day of profound grief for
Argentinans, from cattle baron to
peon, ending as it did the greatest
manhunt in the history of the
republic.
Hundreds upon hundreds of police
had blocked roads and searched fields
and streams volunteer searchers
from the beautiful EStanciaS of the
Mar Del Plata countryside and bronzed
workmen had hunted side by side, but
in vain, for the baby or his kidnaper.
Just before today's police announce
ment, the baby's patrician grand
father, the powerful Senator Antonio
Santa Marina, raced out of Mar Del
Plata for the La Sorpresa Estancia
in a motor car crowded with ply
Sicians.
1t was a forlorn hope The baby
was dead.
The first definite word that the body
had been found by a Peon in that
part of the estancia devoted to hog
raising and slaughter came from an
uncle. in Mar Del Plata.
Mother Frustrated.
Then the La Plata police told their
story.
Eugenio's father. Simon Peyrera
Iraola, also was in Mar Del Plata
when the news came. He and his
family have been in the resort city,
directing the search, since the kid
naping. He, too, rushed to the ranch.
The mother, the former Dolores
Santa Marina remained prostrated at
Mar Del Plata with her other chill
dren, the oldest of whom is eight.
Miguel, who saw the kidnaper, has
been under a doctors care for near
hysteria since he saw "a strange,
bearded man" pick up Eugenio.
Also at Mar Del Plata, in the jail.
was the wandering peon, Jose Can
cedo. He answered questions in dull
monosyllables, and was unable to ex-
plain why he vanished from La Sor-
presa Wednesday night.