ROBERT BOAGEY and JOSEPH BOAGEY

NORTHERN DAILY MAIL
23 JULY 1894
RESCUE FROM DROWNING.
GEO. FORTUNE AGED FOUR YEARS, WHOSE PARENTS LIVE IN UNION STREET, HARTLEPOOL, HAD A NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.HE WAS PLAYING ON SOME STEPS NEAR THE FISH QUAY AND HAD GONE DOWN TO THE BOTTOM STEP TO, AS HE TOLD HIS MOTHER LATER, TO CATCH A FISH, WHEN HE OVER BALANCED HIMSELF AND FELL INTO THE WATER. NO ONE WAS NEAR, BUT THE LITTLE FELLOW SUCCEEDED IN GETTING HOLD OF A PIT PROP, WHICH WAS FLOATING IN THE WATER, AND KEPT HIM FROM SINKING. A YOUNG MAN IN A BOAT FORTUNATELY CAME TO HIS ASSISTANCE IN TIME TOGET HIM OUT OF THE WATER BEFORE HE WAS DEAD, AND HE HANDED HIM TO ROBERT AND JOESEPH BOAGEY, WHO IN ANOTHER BOAT HAPPENED TO COME UPON THE SCENE IMMEADIATELY AFTERWARDS. JOSEPH BOAGEY SCULLED AS RAPIDLY AS POSSIBLE TO SHORE. AND HIS BROTHER ROBERT MEANWHILE USED EVERY ENDEAVOUR TO RESUSCITATE THE LITTLE FELLOW WHO WAS FILLED WITH WATER AND HAD ALL BUT SUCCUMBED. MR R BOAGEY TOOK HIM TO HIS (BOAGEY’S) HOME ON THE TOWN WALL AND DR AINSLEY WAS CALLED IN. AFTER SOME TIME THE BOY WAS SUFFICIENTLY REVIVED TO BE TAKEN TO HIS OWN HOME, AND TODAY HE SEEMED ALTOGETHER RECOVERED.

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