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Show Brave Man Saves Life of Child Plunges Into Canal After Boy, Who Proves to Bo His Own Son. NEW YORK, May 20. William Burns of Rockaway, N. J., was returning home from supper last nlght wondering why his five-. year-old son Willie had not met him at tho canal bridge. As lie crossed the bridge he heard screams of children. Fivo little ones were running wildly to and fro along tho bank of tho canal, shouting for help. The figure of a little boy was floundering In the wnter. Tho little body sank, and the children ran frightened In all directions. Burns threw off his coat and dived to tho spot where he had seen the boy sink. When he arose to the surface th body had been carried to the middle o the 6tream by the current. He swar bard and brought himself to the spr as the body sank a second time. As rose again BurnB seized It. Then, a most exhausted himself, and wclghtl down by his clothes, ho made for bank and Anally renched It after a hid struggle. The boy was unconscious. He turtd the body over and looked at the PC for tho first time. "My God, It's "' son!" ho cried. It was tlve-yeanld Willie, who tcled to sail hla toy at while waiting for his father, ondfcll Into the water. In the hurry of eclng the boy tho father had not rccogzed his son. He put his hand hurriedly t the boy's heart and, found It was stllheat- Ing. n he rolled the body back and forth tho grass, until ho saw signs of rcmlng consciousness. Artificial resplrlon, applied vigorously by tho frantfather, restored, tho little boy to consdJsncss, and half an hour later WJjiiwas resting In bed, not much tho worjfor his narrow escape. Trchlldren spread tho newH of the resa through the neighborhood, and nclfbora who went to Burns to con-gralato con-gralato him were doubly Joyful when the heard tho rescued boy was his I owson. |