Joseph W. Kaufman saved Louis Kmon from drowning, Thorndike, Massachusetts, March 21, 1917. Louis, 4, fell from a strip of shore ice into the Ware River, where the water was 10 feet deep. There was a current of about 3 m.p.h. Kaufman, 25, salesman, who feared to lose more time than was necessary to remove his coat, entered the water from the opposite bank of the river and reached Louis after swimming 225 feet. He lifted Louis to a man on the ice and then clung to the edge, cold and exhausted. In a minute, two men arrived and pulled Kaufman from the water. 17787-1384
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