Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1901 — BODY FOUND IN A CREEK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BODY FOUND IN A CREEK.

Supposed Kidnapers' Victim Had Been in the Water Six Weeks. body of Willie McCormick, the Nqyv York boy who disappeared some time ago, was found in Cromwell creek, a few blocks from the McCormick home. There were no marks on the body to show violence, but everything indicated that It-had been in the water for many weeks. It was fully clothed. Nothing of the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the boy is dissipated by the finding of the body. The father of the little fellow and other members of the

family are inclined to believe that he was done away with. Cromwell creek runs into the Harlem river below McCombs’ dam bridge. The tide in the Harlem river runs so strong at that point that little if anything of a heavy nature is floated into the creek. The most reasonable supposition is that the boy was drowned in the creek, or thrown dead ipto the creek, anil through all the weeks of search the body lay in the mud at the bottom until it was brought up by the crew of a passing lighter. John Garfield, a bridge tender, found the body.

WILLIE M’CORMICK.