Show boy fichs saved many bo lives ves Ro returning horne home on one occasion he receives sound thrashing from his mother london A tribute to the heroism of a boy of 12 roland matchell Ml bell who works as a half timar in a mill and has saved five persons from drowning was paid at an inquest at preston on oil a four year old child named john keefe mitchell Ml dived into ten tell feet of water to save the child who had fallen into the canal he brought the body to the bank but the child was dead the jury in returning a verdict of accidental drowning strongly recommended that mitchella gallantry it should bo be brought before the royal humane society you will agree said tho the coroner mr parker that mitchell Ml to Is a cour ageous little chap it does docs not fall to tn the lot of many lads to save five lives in fact I 1 never heard of such deeds being done by a lad of his ago age lira all ought indeed to be recommended to ta the royal humane society mitchell Wl whose face could bare barely ly be seen above the witness box rails I 1 was carried shoulder high by his roaster master and schoolmates school mates rind and a puma was collected for him the boy had only just juat learned to swim when twelve months ago lie he rescued a lad named gardner from drowning when he had got beyond his depth in the canal and was disappearing for the second time in april mitchell BIl rescued two small boys from drowning in tile canal and in may lie he rescued a I 1 lad named banks who slipped from a stone and fell into deep water tn in july lie ho saved another boy from drowning in the river grlbble ile once the young hero went home drenched to the skin and received a i sound thrashing fromille from fro mIlls big mother before she knew that he fie had jumped into the he canal to save life in an interview s said aid 1 I dived into the writer water and brought myself underneath keefe he fie was floating face doar downwards wards I 1 got hold of him and pulled him out ont I 1 taught myself to swim in a month by I 1 watching other boys boya william king aged 18 was drowned la in the canal at leicester in an effort to save a child who had fallen into the water A boy at 01 13 named n 0 med william wililam vale liale plunged in first and nd king seeing tho the two struggling a in fix tile the water dived in to their assistance I 1 tho the child was waa got safety safely tu t the bank by the two lads but king ng was exhausted and falling back into the water was waa drowned |