SCHOOLBOY HERO.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 215, 7 September 1912, Page 17

SCHOOLBOY HERO.

HELPS TO RESCUE DROWNING WOMAX. I The story of how a woman is alleged to Jvare attempted suicide was told at Westminster by a lad of fourteen, Frederick Cole, of Chelsea.

He saw the woman walk down the steps leading to the water, he said, and throw herself In. lie at once flung off his trousers, boots, etc., and swnm out after her. She sank just before he readied her. but when she came to the surface again he seized her leg. As &he kicked out at him, he had to release his hold. Then he swam ashore nnd shouted, and a man dropped over the embankment wall and managed to get the woman out

In answer to the magistrate, the boy said he had Just left school, and learned to s-vvim while there.

Mr. Horace Smith: I think you are a very KOckl boy and a very brave one. You have helped Xv save a life by being atile to swim ajid being brave.

Edward Littlejohu, of Gdllray Square, said he managed to get the woman ashore. She -was uncom-ious, and he resorted to artificial respinUJon for a -while and then handed her over to a policeman.

The magistrate remanded prisoner, and rewnrded the rescuers from the poor box.