Outsiders Newspaper Article

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Kills gone heroes after a devastating fire.

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Two boys being done for murder have become local heroes. At 12pm yesterday afternoon Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade who are being done for murdering local boy Bob Sheldon, were hiding in the old abandoned church on top of Jay mountain went to the local Dairy Queen for a meal and when they came back the church was up in flames. Ponyboy said to use when we asked what was going through his mind when he saw the church ‘I thought I have to save those kids.’ They could see a group of school age students and two teachers taking a role and looking for student which were missing. He jumped out of there car with a local man named Dallas Winston driving, then Johnny jumped out of the car and followed Ponyboy to the church. A school teacher tried stopping them but Ponyboy and Johnny wouldn’t take no for an answer. The broke open a window which was originally boarded up, jumped through and went looking for the children which they heard the school teacher saying ‘that they might be in the church’ Ponyboy said “they could hear children screaming inside the building”. Dallas Winston was now out of the car shouting into the church at Johnny and Ponyboy telling them to get out and not to save the children. Then the school teacher said he heard and then saw Dallas pulling a window apart to make a gap to get the children out of the church. Then Ponyboy and Johnny started to pass to Dallas children then running back inside and to get the rest of the children that were inside. Then Ponyboy was pulled through the gap, while Dallas yelling and Warning Ponyboy and Johnny that ‘the roof was collapsing onto of them and that they need to get out’. When Ponyboy came out of the window was on fire so Dallas hit him on the back. “I must have hit him harder then I thought because he went out cold.” But Johnny didn’t get out in time and the roof collapsed on him. He is now in an unstable condition.