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That Robbed His Older Brother of Life—“Goodbye Pud” His Last WordsThat Lawrence Boyd, aged 21, one of the two youths who was drowned in the Allegheny river above DamNo. 6 at Clinton while skating on Tuesday afternoon, died in a heroic attempt to rescue Glenn Martin, aged 15, the other victim, was told today by Louden Boyd, aged 17, Lawrence’s younger brother. Who narrowly escaped a similar fate.The three were skating on Nicholson Run. The ice, weakened by a continued premature spring warmth broke and the elder Boyd and Martin youths disappeared.“Lawrence was a good swimmer” the younger brother commented, “and he pulled himself out. Thenhe saw the Martin boy struggling in the icy waters and together we pulled Glenn out and just then the ice gave way under our combined weight a second time.”AH Went Down“This time we all three went down but I managed to drag myself out again,” the boy went on, “but Lawrence must have became afflicted with framps and realized his plight for he called to me:“Goodbye ‘Pud.’Efforts were underway today, on the strength of this story, to obtain a posthumus Carnegie Hero medal) for the elder Boyd boy. ji ^ —i. a. \__ti i itomobile vania ca' $6,244,90(of nearlj over 1921 of the Pi nounced The es 764,730. 7 on a cc id the Bur Harrisbu damage lt;cidents.Appro?the dam; vehicles ■ cars.WitnessHeardNiVandergtbof ru*nm
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Kittanning Simpsons Daily Leader Times
Kittanning, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Jan 29, 1931
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