John R. MacNeil, 28, bookkeeper, saved Minerva M. Currie, 23, and John F. Daly, 24, assistant buyer, from drowning, North Reading, Massachusetts, December 20, 1925. While skating on Martins Pond 175 feet from the bank, Miss Currie and a male companion broke through the ice and went into water eight feet deep. Daly skated toward them and then crawled 15 feet to the hole, over ice which for five feet of the distance was less than two inches thick. Miss Currie was then holding her companion’s hand, and he was submerged. After making an effort to have Miss Currie take hold of his sweater, which he tossed to her, Daly knelt about six inches from the edge of the ice and succeeded in getting her to grasp it. About that time Miss Currie’s companion sank. The ice then broke under Daly, and he fell on top of Miss Currie. She grabbed him, and both were submerged. Daly got free after a struggle and came up under the edge of the ice. MacNeil skated across a section of thin ice in his haste to reach the hole. He then crawled several feet to the edge of the hole and pulled Miss Currie out of the water and a few feet from the hole. He crawled again to the hole and pulled Daly out. Daly was semiconscious but was revived. Mrs. Currie’s companion was drowned. 26094-2261
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