Evening star., 1937-02-28
Argentina KILLER
| HUNT INTENSIFIED
Lynching Attempt Feared as
Boys Body Is Found
in Pigpen.
b the Associated Press.

LA PLATA, Argentina, February a.
Baby Eugenio Peyrera Iraola, Argen-
tina's ''Lindbergh baby" was found
today, the life choked out of his little
body, five years almost TO the day
after Charles A. Lndbergh, jr, was
kidnapped from Jerseys Sourland Hills.
Like Baby Lindbergh, 2-year-old
Eugendo, the seventh child Of baronial
cattle wealth, was killed by his kid
naper. He was stripped Of his little
suit, choked and wounded, and left,
his arms crossed on his chest, in the
slime Of pigpen at the edge Of beau
tiful La Sorpresa. his parents estate.
Five years ago next Monday the
Lindbergh baby was kidnapped from
his famous parents Hopewell, N. j.,
estate. precipitating perhaps the most
intense man hunt in American annals.
1t led to finding of the child's broken
body two months later, not far from
his secluded home.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann paid for
the crime in Jerseys electric chair.
Murder Hunt On.
Argentina's greatest murder hunt
was on tonight Several suspects a.
ready were held. But police were re-
luctant to decide whether one of these
was the bearded man" who carried
little Eugenio away last Wednesday
evening. and presumably strangled
MIN before he was left in the pigpen,
mile and half from his rambling,
luxurious home.
Police, armed with rifles, averted
what might have been lnching at
tempt when a menacing crowd, with
ire mounting against hobo suspect,
Jose Gancedo, gathered around the
Mar Del Plata jail after news spread
that Eugenio's body had been found
A strong guard was thrown around
the jail, but the crowd remained in
the vicinity throughout the afternoon.
A police communique tonight an
nounced the baby's death was due to
Strangulation. There were no other
marks of violence except scratches,
probably caused by wire through which
the kidnaper dragged the child be-
| tween the house and the scene of the
killing.
Police said Eugenio's clothing was
| found in perfect condition" in
cornfield about half a mile from the
spot where the body was discovered.
! 1t was believed the blue-eyed child
had been slain Thursday, the day after
he disappeared. On that day and the
day afterward provincial and federal
officers spread vast dragnet over the
fashionable Mar del Plata resort
countryside near the great Estancia.
Volunteer searchers, hunting side by
| side with bronzed workers, combed
fields and pampas for clues.
First word today that Eugenio had
been found sent his grandfather, the
powerful Senator Antonio Santa Ma
rina. racing from Mar del Plata for
the Estancia in a motor car with phy-
sicians on the hope the baby was still
alive
| It was lost hope.
! The childs father. Simon Peyrera
Iraola, wealthy horse breeder who
had been directing the search from
Mar del Plata, also rushed to La Sor-
presa, but the baby's mother remained
in the resort city, stricken with grief.
In jail at Mar del Plata was wan.
dering peon, Jose Gancedo, whose
mumbled monosyllables gave no an
swer to why he disappeared from the
Estancia Wednesday night.
Mar del Plata police also held Jose
and Daniel Silva, jose's wife Teresa
| -
a short time ago been discharged as
administrator of the 6,600-acre estate
of the Peyrera Iraola family.
Gancedo had recently shaved on
his beard. but police declined to say
whether they thought he was the
mysterious bearded stranger whom
Eugenios 5-year-old brother Miguel
saw pick up the baby Wednes lay eve
ming in the Estancia garden.
! Under Physicians Care.
| Little Miguel N.nself was placed
under doctors care.
Newspaper reports said the babys
wealthy grandfather had indicated a
willingness to pay ransom. and that
he had been in contact with the kid
naper, but authorities declined to con-
firm the report.
The remnants Of the dead bandit
Baby Face" Gordillos gang were
suspected by police at beginning of
the search, but later authorities in
dicated a moral outcast was sought.
Dull-faced Gancedo-the "linyera,"
or hobo. who police said was the
principal suspect-viewed the pitiful
body of little Eugenio in the COM
pany of investigators, but showed no
sign of emotion.
While a medical investigation was
under way to determine if the boy
died directly from Strangulation, as
the marks on his throat indicated,
police took Gancedo to view the body
and the scene where Eugenio was
found dead.
Authorities said that Gancedo was
subnormal mentally.
Another "linyera" also was taken
into custody when found hiding under
a harvesting machine near the Estan-