Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1912 — SAVED FROM WATERY GRAVE [ARTICLE]

SAVED FROM WATERY GRAVE

Row-Boat Built to Take Woman to Husband Wrecked In Colorado River. San Bernardino, Colo.—Four men loitering on the bank of the Colorado river just north of Yuma rescued Mrs. May Hadley from death in the wreck of a home-made rowboat in which she was trying to make her way to a ranch below the international line, where her husband lay critically 111. Mrs. Hadley lives at Oatman, Ariz w opposite Needles. Having no money to pay for a passage down the river, she built a boat herself, but it was too fragile to withstand the swirling currents of the Colorado, and it went to pieces five miles north of Yuma. The woman’s cries for help were heard by the four men on the bank. When they dragged hey to shore she was numb from the effect of the icy water. She Wear* Men’s Clothing. Spartansboro, N, C.—After she had been masquerading as a man for eight months, the Identity of Mrs. Mary Owens has ben discovered and she has been forced to leave the factory town of Saxon Mills. The young woman had -become engaged to a Id-year-old girl who la broken-hearted over the revelation.