Contractor finds mummified baby in Toronto home

TORONTO, July 26 (Reuters) A Canadian contractor is looking for donations to fund a funeral after finding a mummified baby in the wall of a Toronto home.

Home renovator Bob Kinghorn found the tiny body, wrapped in an 80-year-old newspaper, as he was running a wire through the three-storey Kintyre Ave. home, in one of Toronto's older neighborhoods.

''I opened it up, looked close and didn't believe it. But then I looked closer and I saw the fingers and the little toes.

It was all wrapped up in the fetal position,'' he said.

''I'm going to take donations, and I want to try to bury the baby. I want to name him Baby Kintyre.'' Police said they were examining the tiny corpse for ''any abnormalities or evidence of trauma'', although it was not yet clear how old the baby was, or how long the package had been tucked away in a cavity between floors in the house.

Newspaper wrapped around the baby was dated September 15, 1925.

''This is being treated as as suspicious death at this time,'' said police spokeswoman Wendy Drummond.

A post-mortem has been set for today.

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