"UNDERGROUND" HERO.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1027, 17 January 1911, Page 6

"UNDERGROUND" HERO.

Mr. Troutbeck, the coroner for Westminster. held an-inquiry recently into the death of John -William Whitehead, agea fifty-four, a foreman engaged on the Wesleyan Centenary Hall, now being erected near Westminster Abbey. "Whitehead," said Mr. Troutbeck after tho inquiry, "was a man of high character, who lost his life in an attempt to save the life of another. It was a gallant deed. " I have not ha'd a case like it before. If an application is made for the presentation oS a commemorative mednl from the Carnegie Heroes Fund to his widow I will endorse it. Whitehead acted ■with remarkable courage and without hesitation. It was a wonderful deed for a man of his age." It -appeared that Whitehead's splendid not-was-performed--at St. James's Park station of the. Underground- Railway. William James Hart, a caraeiror, a-so employed on the hall, ran very x: a idly down the steps to the station platform, and arriving there suddenly reeled and fell 011 the line—the effect of his overexertion while suffering from heart disease. Whitehead, who was following and knew the state of Hart's health, heard the sound of an approaching train, and ■realising tho danger juniped on to the four-foot way and tried to save his companion, but the train killed both.