BRAVE BOY

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 96, 27 April 1929, Page 14

BRAVE BOY

BOATING TRAGEDY

GALLANT ATTEMPT AT IM'IMOUN

(By Tolournpli.) (Special to "Tho Evonlnp l*ost.")

AUOIUiANI), Tills l>/t,y

A' 13-yeur-old boy, (li.'iilTi'ey Hliitw, was drowned nl. Imlto I'lipiiki', T/ikft' puna, on Wednesday iitlvniuiiti mil I.lm tragedy whs reported mi Thiirmliiy. .11. appears that GuulTrny HltiiW w/iw (('dug out in a canoo mid I'ofry While, wild resided in l.lni humid mliuulj IwHvlihJ. avenue, told him not. to 150 iim llm wiil-or was too rough. lln loiuw llm iillh-c boy could only hwiiu I'm' » iVw .y/iiils, but when Shmv wmi iliil.nriiiiiind In H<t White doomed 11, lilrt duly In tfO vvllli him. The cumin wan nbmit liflf) yni'dfi ntt shore when it Hhlpjxwl i\ iicH Mini i'hnv/ fell overboard. Wlilt.ij riling l.n l.liv canoe mmiu'iiliirily, but It Went flow under him mid Uicn lin witiil, l.n JV'I. Shaw. fcihuw not. (111 VVIiILij-Vi li/ir-l;, but (he wnvuM wui'o vnry liitjli mid }nj could not hold oil. 'i'liiiy 11.1111.1111di1r.1l that position, and Hlwuv lidlil Wliitu round tho waist nml thny iniul.y for 1.110 shore. .By Iho tiniu limy romiliod MlO weed bell, which \'nitjf,'U\ tlio ftliin'o White had jjoiio down twicis, but nUick to his groat, Iji.mli. Wliuii l.hf.y v/vru within itbout 20 yii.rdH Hlmw Hiiirl, "I am letting go now, Percy." Wliil.ii, ul his last gnsp, Itrpt on Bwiinming inoni by instinct than coiiKcioim offort, find in a stato of semi-coiiHcioiiHiiCHH redfihed the shore. He was unable to obtain nnsiHlanci; for some considerable! time, and ho far the search for Shaw'H body Ikih been fruitless.