Isn't that crazy... can you imagine the trauma for that poor man doing repair in the house....ewwww, freaky

http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/240421

It was a newborn boy that was laid to rest, wrapped in a blanket and newspaper dated 1925, beneath the floorboards of a Toronto home, an autopsy and X-rays have confirmed.

Ontario's Deputy Chief Coroner, Dr. Jim Cairns, said yesterday there was no evidence of foul play, "no injuries, no stab marks and most of the internal organs could be examined. The baby had 10 little fingers and 10 little toes. It's pretty remarkable."

The baby was full-term and showed no signs of congenital disease, police said in a news release late yesterday.

A renovator working on a house on Kintyre Ave. near Queen St. E. and Broadview Ave. found the mummified remains Tuesday night.

The Sept. 15, 1925 date on the newspaper is the best indicator of when the baby was born, Cairns says.

"We know the baby boy wasn't born before that," Cairns said. "It's our feeling the baby died shortly after birth."

Cairns says police are trying to track down relatives of the couple who bought the Kintyre Ave. house in 1919 and sold it in 1941.

Wesley and Della Russell, who are both dead, didn't have any next of kin, Cairns said. Police are trying to find other relatives so a DNA sample can be taken from them and matched to the baby. "But that's a long shot depending on what comes along," he said.