A YOUTHFUL HERO Remarkable Feat of a Twelve-Year-Old Boy.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 208, 25 June 1887, Page 8

A YOUTHFUL HERO Remarkable Feat of a Twelve- Year-Old Boy.

An application has been made to the Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, for a medal to be given to a boy of 12 years, under the law \\ inch permits I hose who have saved life by heroic rescue to be so clis ti nourished. The lad's name is Walter Kernochan, His father is i\ merchant of wealth in Now York, and his uncle ib Lorillard, the tobacco^ manufacturer. Last fall, while wandering along the banks of the Shrewsbury Eh er in Now Jersey, near his father' '<ummci hero, H-p hny^ nurse, Annie Sa^e.to, fell into the water. Bhe K'nk tw.ee, and thru, according to the affilUivitsipi'tvcntotl, tho child hearing her cries, i«,n to hd »o 1' t:.:ico, :vatl, tlnv-yim* off hi? coat, spiano, into the siroam, seized her by the hair, hold her hcid abo\ c water and hu-am a^hoie. He weighs Ic-s than sivty l^ound", <i\G move than 120. He is shown by e\ idt'nae to be a phenomenal s-\\ iinincr for a lad of his ago, and to hsivc t-ikon io thov.at^r liko a duck before he phed Ins i^iUeo-xib. While the claim _ i.regarded i\n uini'-u.d, and (here aie seep! it > who cannot be con\ inccd that such a feat could be performed by a boy of hi* ago and wei"ht, i' i^]-!o!\.blo that he^i 1 ' be given a medal by tho Go\ eminent, a? he ha^ already received one fiom iho Humane J-Jocie() oi. Now \uik.