COSTER AS LIFE-SAVER
FORTY PERSONS RESCUED. IBY CABLE—PRESS ASSX.—COP YRIGHT.] (Recd. February 27. 1.50 p.m.) LONDON, February 26. Patay Hackett, a typical London coster, selling vegetables from a barrow, and who lives near the Grand Union Canal, has alrAdy saved 40 persons from drowning, mostly children. She is in the habit of patrolling the' shores of the canal, and plunges in. fully dressed. She once rescued a would-be suicide Jind two school chil- ! dren. simultaneously.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 February 1935, Page 7
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