A brave pointsman.
Brisbane, Thursday.—A railway employee named Ewing was shunting a heavily laden mixed train at Alpha station to allow a special to pass when a large brown snake crawled out of the points box over his hands and shoulder and down his back and escaped,. Ewin# pluokily held on to the lava* and allowed the train to oross safely i when questioned afterwards he saia that if he had let the lever go the train would have been wrecked and probably many lives lost; it was simply a oase of many lives or one.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXI, Issue 3268, 24 May 1895, Page 4
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96A brave pointsman. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXI, Issue 3268, 24 May 1895, Page 4
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