FORTUNATE SHOCK
FALL INTO CANAL RESTORES ' SPEECH. The shock of falling into a canal at Ince, near Wigan, has had the effect of restoring speech and hearing to a youth of 18 who had been ueaf and dumb since an attack of measles when he was four years old. Thomas McHugh, the young deaf mute, was saved from drowning by a man named James Smith, and while a parish priest was offering a thanksgiving prayer for his escape the young man joined in in broken language. Smith, an unemployed Wigan miner, has been presented with the Royal Humane Society’s certificate for rescuing McHugh. . He has a notable life-saving, record, having rescued no fewer than 26 people, from drowning. Tin’s is the fifth occasion on which the society has presented him with its certificate.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 82, 17 January 1928, Page 2
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