A BRAVE NEWSBOY.
DIED TO SAVE ANOTHER
"I'M SATISFIED."
! NEW YORK. Oct. 23. i "I'm glad I did it. Tell her I hope she will soon get well, doc." These words were whispered into the ear of Dr J. A. Craig, a. medical man, of Meary, Indiana, by William Rugh, a. crippled newsboy who died early >*-sterday morning after sacrificing the ' skin of his withered leg co that the ! life of Miss Ethel Smith might be eavI cd. "She's a girl I've never seen, and it makes no difference to me," Rugh gasped. " A cripple can't do nothing. Everything's against him. I'm satisfied." Miss Smith was frightfully burned in & recent motor cycle accident, and the doctors announced that she would die unless someone volunteered to lose enough skin to be grafted on to- her body. Rugh volunteered, and after the operation he rallied, and it was believed at first that he would live. The girl practically recovered, and was sent home on Tuesday, but the brave boy contracted pneumonia the same day, and gradually sank and died.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 28 October 1912, Page 7
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177A BRAVE NEWSBOY. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 28 October 1912, Page 7
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