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Show YOUNG MAN IS SAVED BY GIRL New York, Aug. 8. Peter Harey, a young army ; --h ate at Fort Slocum on Long Island Sound, lies today strapped to his col in a cell at the fort, raving in deliiiuiu. He owe his life to the pluck of Anna Moran, a girl of twenty, who yesterday struggled strug-gled with him in the watc6 of Long Island tfound when ho attempted to c ommit suicide by drow ning ia order lo escape the punishment for desertion. deser-tion. Harvey wtu; recruited only a few weeks ago. He quickly tired of army life, and yesterday morning, burdened burden-ed with full uniform, he swam a mllo from tbe fort to Gl"n Island, whence he honed to find his way unnoticed at nightfall on a ferry to New Ro-Hielle. Ro-Hielle. Bur during the day he was I picked up by a patrol sent out for hl capture and was put on board an i army launch which was then started ! for the fort. The. launch had not - gone far before . Harvey dived over board. He struck tho water only a few feet from where Miss Moran waa bathing. She dived oftr hiiu and they roso together Harey crazed, with tho fear of bein captured oaj scelfin? death instead, struck at his rescuer again and again, but she was utterly utter-ly unmindful of blows or bites and kept herself afloat until the luunch came to her assistance. The crew-was crew-was compelled to bent the recruit into insenflUlitv before they could drft , hlui iutu the lauueh. |