MOTHER SAVES CHILD.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 79, 2 April 1914, Page 5

MOTHER SAVES CHILD.

A GALLANT RESCUE. < Brardy risking her own life to cave that of her eon from almost certain 1 death, Mrs. Harkine, a resident of Wei- - tesley Street West, was run over by a > horse and trap this morning, and sus- * tamed eerkuM injuroes to her Hugh in her ; successful effort to drag her chiid away. < She now lice in a serious condition at < the hospital, wiere the full extent of her * injuries ha« not yet been ascertained, i It i≤ feared that her th«rh is broken. 1 though her injuries are not expected to i prove fatal. t It seems little short of a miracle that •! the gallant mother nv.is not herself killed. < and had it not been for v. fortunate c ehancp of her falling away from the trap, nothing could have saved her froni an ! awful death. Mrs. H-arkins was engaged \ in her store 'when she heard the noise ] of her horee and trap, which had been f etas>led in a neighbouring yard, running t alon»: the pavement. She immediately r rushed out, and caw the horse coming s at full gallop, and ier iboy playing imme- r diately in front. Qnicfcly rushing to ins \ rescue, ehe wag in time to drag him ( away, but too late to avert an accident. She fell 'backwards against the -wall of a shop window, and the wheels of the trap ran over her thigh. She was picked * up in an almost unconsciaue condition, I and I>r. Parkes "was hastily summoned. < So bad were her injuries that he oonkl s not, on a rapid examination, ascertain * their full nature. She iras then convoyed to the hospital. c