A BLIND HERO.
SAVES FAMILY. IN SMOKY INFERNO. LONDON, Jan. 31. Wakened by the ioar of flames in lii.s bedroom, which was filled with smoke, Alfred Aleader, a blind ex-service man, and the proprietor of a chandler’s shop in Camdentown, dragged his wife and two childien to the window. lie clambered out himself on to the sloping snow-covered roof of an outhouse, hut crashed through a skylight. AVhen he fell he was almost iirecipitated into the flames, but lie clung to the- edge and climbed out He then assisted his family over the roofs of the outhouses, and then jumped into a neighbour’s backyard. Aleanwhile Louisa- Smith, aged 13, living in the rooms above tlie Ateader’s, awakened her family, and, carrying a two-year-old brother, ..she shepherded her brother and sister to safety down the smoke-filled and charred staircase, the mother following, carrying a threemonths baby.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 February 1927, Page 10
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145A BLIND HERO. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 February 1927, Page 10
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