EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT. [ UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION].
Auckland, This Day. Last evening the wife of Constable Naughton was walking behind her husband across the railway bridge at Helensville, when she was blown off. The husband heard a scream, and jumped off in the darkness, landing in the mud, where he became so deeply imbedded that he could not move. A child saw the occurrence, and ran to the station, whereupon Hull, a railway porter, jumped into the creek, and caught Mrs. Naughton, who had drifted a hundred yards with her head under water. Hull was unable to land, owing to the mud, but held the woman's head out of the water until both were rescued by a boat. Animation was restored with difficulty. Naughton was hauled safely out of the mud by ropes.
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Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 59, 8 September 1881, Page 2
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131EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION]. Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 59, 8 September 1881, Page 2
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