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NARROWLY ESCAPED DROWNING
Youthful Fisherman is Rescued From Perilous Position by Herbert Boyle
[Welland Telegraph, 26 April 1910]
There is one boy in Welland, at least, who will not go fishing in a hurry again.
The thirteen-year-old son of G.A. Petit, Randolph Street, was trying to pull up a net on the aqueduct on Monday evening when he slipped and fell into the creek beneath a distance of fifteen feet.
He was alone at the time, but his cries as he struck the water were soon heard.
The lad managed to hang onto a rough stone until Herbert Boyle waded out to a boat in the creek, untied it and paddled out. When he reached him the little fellow sank back into the boat, thoroughly exhausted. A minute more and he would have gone to the bottom.
He was taken to his home in a bus.
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