Show failed ailed to save playmate atlantic city lad panic stricken denies drowning of companion for days atlantic city all doubt as to tho the fate of harry malla eight years old missing for two weeks was waa ended when thomas oswald nine years old blurted out in a panic ot of tear fear at police headquarters a dramatic story of the death of his playmate and his frantic efforts to save him the boy expected to be arrested and hla his relief was so BO great when policemen patted him on tte a back and called him a hero that he bo broke into tears young oswald told several conflicting stories to the parents of the missing malla lad after describing to others how lie he last saw his friend clinging to a piling and calling for his mother ile he asked his mother if when two men were in a boat and one fell out and the other tried to save him but failed the second man would be arrested suspecting what had transpired mrs oswald hurried her bo son to the city hall there the badly frightened lad reluctantly luct antly admitted that when young malla malia fell from a dock one afternoon ho he plunged overboard over overa oard loard after him the swift tide and maltas struggles threatened to drown both and he be was compelled to leave his friend to save sae himself we both went down once and then I 1 left him yelling for help but no one came the boy cried the search for mallas mallas body was continued wit without hout result |