BRUCE

Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 04:35:08 :

The Marin Journal
Thursday, April 1, 1915
Page 1

Baby Drowns in San Anselmo Creek

While toddling along the bank of the San Anselmo creek which runs in the rear of his parents’ residence at Fairfax last Sunday, little two-year-old William Lawson Bruce fell into the water and was drowned.

Mr. and Mrs. Leslie M. Bruce, the father and mother, missed the little fellow about 3 o’clock. They searched in vain for a half hour and then called the neighbors to help them. Under Sheriff Redding was appealed to. He gathered several men together and aided the searching party, composed of the firemen of San Rafael, Fairfax and Ross and scores of citizens.

It was only after a bloodhound had been enlisted in the search that the party found where the child had gone down to the water’s edge. Five hundred yards below that point the body was found.

Although the water in the creek is not deep, the current was too swift for the little fellow to withstand, and it is probable that, having waded in, the baby was washed off his feet to his death.

The body was found by George Cocca, of Fairfax. Bruse (sic) is a carpenter, and has been employed by the Keanograph Motion Picture Co. of Fairfax. The funeral was held Tuesday and the remains were cremated.