ANOTHER SMART AND COURAGEOUS YOUNGSTER.
The heroism of a younef lad named Westrupp, between 13 and 14 years of age, was praised by the Coroner's jury at Collingwood at the inquest on the body of the infant child of Mrs. Patterson, which was dropped by its mother while escaping fronr last week's floods. The lad started to conduct the mother and her children to a place of safety from the flood waters, and finding that Mrs. Patterson had got out of her depth aud had lost her baby, helped her out, and managed to assist her and a second child into a poplar tree, while yet another child found refuge in an elderberry bush, where they remained for about eight hours. Westrupp afterwards went baok through the flood to where he had left another child, and finding that he was unable to rejoin the others, found refuge elsewhere.
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Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 32, 8 February 1899, Page 5
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148ANOTHER SMART AND COURAGEOUS YOUNGSTER. Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 32, 8 February 1899, Page 5
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