Cornelius Fitzgerald, 42, stationary engineer, attempted to save Alfred Legault, 12, schoolboy, and Gladys Bouchard, 14, from drowning, Ware, Massachusetts, January 1, 1912. Fitzgerald ran 580 feet, and then walked over thin ice on Muddy Brook toward a hole in which Alfred and Gladys were struggling in water nine feet deep. As they were too exhausted to grasp a rope that he threw them, he approached nearer the hole. Alfred sank, and, as Fitzgerald reached out to grasp Gladys’s dress, the ice broke, and he also fell into the water. He grasped Gladys’s dress but was unable to retain his hold, and she sank. Fitzgerald clung to the ice 15 minutes before assistance reached him. He was too weak to stand alone when taken from the water and was unable to work for two weeks. 7819-607
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