COURAGEOUS FATHER
RESCUES CHILDREN FROM FIRE. "
(Received July 6, 2 p.m.) •■ MELBOURNE, This Day. . Dashing courageously into the smoke-filled room, Victor Sleigh, formerly a leading jockey and now a hotel licensee at Moonee Ponds, rescued his two infant daughters when a fire occurred at the hotel early today. Although' the flames were burning through the door of the bedroom, the children, when aroused by their father," were sleeping soundly. The sitting-room adjoining was burnt out.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 6, 6 July 1935, Page 10
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75COURAGEOUS FATHER Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 6, 6 July 1935, Page 10
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