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Show BOY TRIES WILD I SWIM FORLIBERTY Immigrant In Daring Attempt ti Escape Es-cape from Ellis Island Now York, N. Y., Oct. 17. Fad lahla Zkalb is a Svrlon boy of only 14 years, who now lies on :i cot In tho hospital on Ellis Island. Ho is tho only Immigrant who has over attempted to swim acrjss the tumbling waters past the Statue of Liberty to tho shoics of free Join nnd opportunity. And ho mado tho attempt nt n'.ght with one nrm broken at ilio viist nnd trailing uselessly beside hint In the Icy water! Came All Alone Fndlnhla had come nil nlono from Danmscus, friendless and without money. After biaving all tho leirors of such a trip into n bUmi,;o land, tho boy was held up nt Ellis island. Tlio authorities bald ho illicit l-nc to bo deported. It was tho old tragedy that bus crushed many a hopeful Immigrant ns ho stood on tho very thrcsno d of tho lnnd of promise. Dut FnaluhU refused to be crushed. From the lcc-ond lcc-ond Btory window In tho general hospital hos-pital at Ellis Island he could sa the sun tailing on tho soft green trees of Battery park and on the lowering white skyscrapers beyond. The bay between was broad and rough but Fadlahla decided to swim It! The night was dark when he tutted tutt-ed to lower himself from tho window win-dow by a rope mado of bed clothing knotted together. Tho rope broke in d he fell. When he picked himself ip there was a stinging pnln in ills left arm and his hand hung llnuilv. 'Jut the boy full of determination, pluug-ed pluug-ed Into tho wnter and struck out to ward tho winking, golden llu'iu of the city of hope. Rescue Means Capture Hugo ferries churned past him In tho dark; the tide was against htm and the waves were high. Dut ho fought on. When daylight came a tugboat captain cap-tain discovered the boy sitting astride u plunk, paddling painfully townrd the shore which was still far dls tant. Tho captain "rescued" him. To the exhausted boy it was "capture." "cap-ture." He has been brought back, In despair to his "prison" on Kills Island. |