S. Earl T. Gelly, 12, schoolboy, saved J. Edward Weber, 3, from drowning, West Springfield, Massachusetts, January 17, 1913. Edward wandered out on thin ice on the Connecticut River, and when he was 20 feet from the bank, where the water was over six feet deep, he broke through the ice to his chest. Earl, a poor swimmer and heavily dressed, ran to the river and then out on the ice to the child. As he was grasping Edward, the ice broke, and he fell into the water. He held to the child with one hand and the ice with the other and did not go beneath the surface. Earl worked Edward and himself up on the ice, rolled away from the hole, and then carried Edward to the bank. 10141-874
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