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Show m CRIPPLED NEWSBOY DIES HERO'S DEATH Fourteen-Yea'r-Old Indian Lad Gives Life to Girl as Result of a Skin Grafting Operation. Gary, Ind., Oct. IS. "I guess1 I'm somo good, after all." Willie Rugh, a 14-year-old cripple, whoso withered leg was amputated to save tho life of a girl by a skin grafting operation nt n hospital here, spoke these words this morning and then died. Pneumonia Pneu-monia caused by ether Inhnicd during tho operation proved fatal. Rugh had no relatives and since coming to Gary ns a tramp sovcral years ago mado his living selling newspapers on the streets The girl for whom ho gave his limb had been terribly burned In a motorcycle accident. Sh0 was n stranger to him. |