Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-08 | Page 5 | Boy Saves Life of a Youngster

BOY SAVES LiFE Of A YiNGSTER A young boy who has not ' .vet mastered the art of swimming probably owes his life to the heroic action of Raymond Rogers, tho 14-yc-ar-old son of Mrs. A. Rogers, residing resid-ing at 2573 Grant avenue, according to the stories of several' lads who witnessed wit-nessed tho occurrence at the Weber river Thursday afternoon. I Raymond and several of his boy friends had been in swimming and were dressing when a Jap, with the hoy on his back, started across tho river. When In the deepest water the . man let go his hold on the boy, drop-' drop-' ping him into the deep water Leaving Leav-ing the lad floundering in the swift current, the man swam to the far shore and, turning about, laughed at the boy, who was crying and screaming scream-ing for help The boy had gone down once when the Rogers lad, realizing the lit-I lit-I tie fellow's danger, sprang into the j river and brought him safely to the shore. The boys who witnessed the rescue stalp that the Jap who took the bov into the river would probably proba-bly have remained on tho bank and allowed the youngster to drown, not realizing his real danger. In the cx-cllcment cx-cllcment of shaking the ater out of the rescued Toy, neither his name nor that of the man were sccurod.