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The Ludington Daily News
February 19, 1940

                      BODY OF FROZEN YOUTH RECOVERED
                      
                       Two Boys Became Lost Near
                         Petoskey After Running
                           Away From School
                           
           PETOSKEY, Feb. 19  - AP -
           Guided by the incoherent tale of a badly frightened
         and frost-bitten runaway boy, Indian guides with a dog
         team Sunday found the frozen body of DAVID DEVERNAY, Jr.,
         13, in an isolated area near Sturgeon bay.
         
           DONALD DOUGLAS, also 13, stumbled into an Indian's
         cabin near the bay at daybreak Sunday and told of
         leaving his chum exhausted in the snow. Searchers set
         out immediately, battling the drifts in sledges and on
         foot, but reached the boy too late to lend assistance.
         
           The two boys had been missing for more than 24 hours,
         after running away from Holy Childhood Indian school
         at Harbor Springs. Drifting snow had concealed their
         route along Lake Michigan, where they wandered in an
         effort to reach their homes in Munising, more than 150
         miles away.
         
           Young DOUGLAS, recoverying from his experience, said
         he and DAVID, both "homesick," ran away from school
         Friday and spent Friday night at the home of DAVID'S
         aunt, Mrs. JOHN CHIPPEWA, in Cross village. She advised
         them to return to the school, but they set out again
         toward their home Saturday morning.
         
           Nightfall caught them in open country, and they left
         the state highway they had been following, trying to
         find a farm-house.
         
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