Daniel B. Howard, 39, laborer, saved Mary Tillotson, 62, from drowning, Baldwinsville, New York, April 8, 1909. Howard, fully clothed and wearing heavy working shoes, sprang from a bridge into the Seneca River, where the current was 5 m.p.h., and grasped Mrs. Tillotson, who had been carried over a dam. She slipped away, and he swam to her and grabbed her again. The woman struggled until she became unconscious and Howard very tried, and in a short time they had drifted 1,200 feet, when they were picked up by men in boats. 3642-444
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