AN AMBULANCE CLASS HEROINE.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 147, 25 September 1895, Page 3

AN AMBULANCE CLASS HEROINE.

The service rendered by ambulance classes was strikingly brought out in the recent prize distribution at Hastings (writes a correspondent to a London paper). It was then proposed that some extra distinction should be conferred upon a young lady, Miss Hunt Holley, for the extraordinary courage and presence of mind displayed in the so-calied ' St. Leonards Tragedy ' last December. The entire Loußehold, as it was supposed, bad retired for the night, when the most appalling screams were heard proceeding from the kitchen. Throwingon herdresainggowntheelder daughter of the houso rushed downstairs, to find the cook lying in a pool of blood on the iloor and a man hacking at her throat. The youug lady deliberately confronted the murderer, who, taken aback by her coolness, turned and fled ; then having fastened the door upon him, without a moment's hesitation she stopped the victim's wounds with her fingers, thus taring her life. It carno out that Misp Hunt Holley, only a few days before, had enquired at her ambulance class how wounds could be stopped. There is, however, all the difference in the world knowing how to do a thing and doing it on the spur of the moment, and amid circumstances that might well daunt the stoutest hearted. I Hastings and St. Leonards arc proud of their heroine, aud no wonder—the I firet of which cither town can boast.