BRAVE WOMEN.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 1859, 8 September 1923, Page 6

BRAVE WOMEN.

SWIFT DASHES TO SAVE DROWNING MEN.

The gallant rescue of a drowning man by a young woman, who tore oft her clothing and swam 200 yards to save him, was witnessed by visitors to ]tamsey, Isle of Man. The man, Mr J. H. Nasmyth, of inscard, a strong swimmer, was returning from a swim to a wrecked vessel lying in the bay, when he had a seizure. The young woman, Mrs Glass, of Nottingham, acted at once. "I didn't stop to think," she explained afterwards. "I just threw off my dress and shoes and stockings and swam as' hard as I could. "I supported the man, who was unconscious when I reached him, with my arms and body, and swam on my back, being assisted ashore by a helper who came into the water with all his clothes on." Mrs Glass, who is an athletic woman of 23, is the daughter of Dr Sturrock, of Nottingham. The man who assisted her, a medical student in camp with an Officers' Training Corps, refused to give his name when asked for it. "She saved him, I didn't," he said. The plucky action of a London visitor, Mrs Irene Pox, was commended by the coroner at an inquest at Worthing on Robert Finlay Heron, 71, who was drowned while bathing. Although unable to swim, Mrs Foxton dashed into the sea up to her chin' in her efforts to reach him, while other women bathers formed a chain back to the beach.