Gardner I. Ritchie saved William E. Converse from being killed by a train, Wilmington, Massachusetts, December 8, 1930. Converse, 60, salesman, stood on a track on which a work train was approaching northward behind him at a speed of 30 m.p.h. He was waiting to board a passenger train, approaching from the opposite direction on the adjacent track. As the passenger train was passing Converse at a speed of 25 m.p.h., Ritchie, 40, auditor, ran westward 10 feet to him, grabbed him under the armpits, and lifted him to the space between the two tracks. They barely cleared the locomotive of the work train, and Ritchie held Converse in a 43-inch space between the passing trains until they stopped. 31033-2634
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