A BOY HERO.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 57, 4 September 1909, Page 10

A BOY HERO.

"If any one will throw something in I'll fetch it out," said Reginald Carter, aged eight, walking by tho canal at Hig-ham-in-the-Hill, near Hinckley, Leicestershire. A companion, Edmund Bailey, aged ten, threw some cigarette pictures in the water, and Carter, having undressed, brought them out. More were thrown in — this time to the ceDtre of the canal, where the water is deep and dangerous. In trying to get them Carter sank in a deep hole. He rose to the top and sank again. Seeing that his playmate was in dire peril, Bailey, without hesitation, plunged in with his boots and clothes on, and seizing Carter, made strenuous efforts to save him. The two struggled desperately, and amidst frantic excitment amongst the three boys who watched them from the bank they sank clasped in each other's arms. Coming to the surface for a third time, Batley shouted, "Fetch my dad." J Terribly frightened, a boy named Townsend and other boys ran to Hinckley for assistance. They eventually returned with a man named Sharpe, who recovered the dead bodies of both lads. At the inquest the jury were warm in their praise of the heroic action of Bailey, who lost his life in trying to save Carter's.