“A BRAVE LITTLE SOUL”
GAVE HER LIFE FOR HER friend: WANGANUI, Jan. 30. A verdict of accidental drowning was returned' in .. connection with the double fatality at Putiki on Thursday whereby two girls, Elizabeth MacLean and Cicely . Leigh lost their liV The Coroner referred to the heroism displayed by Cicely Leigh, and said she was a brave little soul who gave her life in the endeavor to save her friend. . The Coroner also praised the action of two women, who could r.ot swim, but ioined hands and walked in tip to tlieir 'necks to endeavor to affect a rescue. He recommended that the facts be placed before the Royal Humane Society.—P.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10016, 1 February 1926, Page 5
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