CAUGHT ON GRAFTON PARAPET
ANOTHER BRIDGE TRAGEDY AVERTED [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND. January 29. A passer-by saved a middle-aged onelegged man from falling from the parapet of Grafton Bridge, shortly after 7 o’clock to-night. The man had reached the bridge centre, when he noticed a one-legged man with crutches falter and drop them. At the time the two men were abou 12yds apart, and there were not many people about. The one-legged man scrambled awkwardly to the top of the parapet, but his disability enabled him to be rescued when he was about to fall.
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Evening Star, Issue 22560, 30 January 1937, Page 10
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96CAUGHT ON GRAFTON PARAPET Evening Star, Issue 22560, 30 January 1937, Page 10
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