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Show FIREMAN saves: LIVES Financier Is Searching for Modest Hero to Reward Him Chicago, April 15. Fireman James A. Joyce is In hiding. Louis B. Clarke, a banker. Is looking for him with what he described as a "search warrant." The situation Is due to an act of heroism on the part of the fireman which called forth the plaudltd of thousands thou-sands in the Loop district who saw, him stop a runaway horse at tho imminent im-minent risk of his owu life, thereby saving two women, who seemed doomed doom-ed to death or injury. One was tho wife of Mr. Clarke, and it Is the modesty mod-esty of the fireman In secluding him-self him-self that has aroused the financier's determination to find, "even if it necessitates ne-cessitates a trip with a search war- ; rant." Joyce was Bitting with a newspaper and a pipe in front of his quarters . when the runaway, dragging a light i cab. dashed by. In a flash the pipe dropped, the paper was hurled to ono side, and his chair overturned behind him Fireman Joyce made his leap. During- the next few moments, the excited crowds witnessed a spectacular rescue of two women from what had appeared to be certain death. Clutching at the horse's bridle, Joyco was dragged over the asphalt for more than a block before he stopped the animal. Cut and bruised, besmudged and besmearched, he disentangled himself him-self from the horse, saw to it that the women were lifted out and taken care of. and then hastened back into his company's quarters and hid himself. |