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In Memoriam--Edgar Lindgren 

On August 12 last, United States 
game warden, Edgar A. Lindgren, 
while patrolling some woods north of 
Council Bluffs, Iowa, was shot down 
at close range by two Italians whom 
he had found with wild ducks in their 
possession in direct violation of state 
and federal game laws. These same 
Italians shot and seriously wounded 
their unarmed companion in an effort 
to prevent his giving evidence against 
them. The warden lived long enough 
to tell his story and the wounded Ita- 
lian eventually recovered. The crim- 
inals were arrested and one has been 
: ~ given a long penitentiary sentence. 
No report from the trial of the other two has been received. 




Edgar A . Lindgren was a graduate of Bawen High School in 
Chicago. While at that school he had joined the bird club 
known as the Bowen Bird Boosters which has been in active 
existence for nearly ten years. This Club has affiliated with the 
Illinois Audubon Society and in that way young Lindgren was 
a member of our Society. It is said that in his earlier school 
years he had regarded birds as very useful targets for his marks- 
manship, but under the influences surrounding him at Bowen 
High School he became an enthusiastic protector of birds. He 
furnished his yard as a bird preserve and fed birds during the 
winter. 
After his graduation from Bowen High School he joined the 
navy where he served for about a year. He returned to civil 
life with his old ambition to do something for the birds and 
began his work as a Federal Game Warden where his advance- 
ment was rapid. He was married about this time to Miss Leona 
Marble. His untimely death in the performance of duty brings 
forcibly home to all of us the realization of how much educa- 
tional work remains to be done to secure co-operation to protect 
the best things in life. 
Mr. Raymond Lussenhop, President of the Bowen Bird Boost- 
ers, informs us that it is the plan of his associates to have a 
framed picture of Edgar Lindgren in the zoology laboratory of 
the school. It has beer suggested that the bird fountain to be 
placed in the school yard by the Club on its tenth anniversary be 
named the Lindgren Memorial Fountain. 
