Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1903 — Body Of Drowned Boy Found. [ARTICLE]

Body Of Drowned Boy Found.

Delphi, In<L, May 4. —The body of Bootbroyd Thompson, who was drowned in the Tippecanoe river, near this city, last Monday afternoon, was fonnd Sunday. He was boating with a companion when the boat struck a trotline and oapoized- Thompson was fifteen years old and a son of Fred Thompson, who owns a big G. A. B. sntnmer resort on the Tippecanoe. From two to five handred people had been searching for the body and hundreds of charges of dynamite had been used to raise the body without success.