FOR HEROISM.

Mataura Ensign, 28 January 1911, Page 5

FOR HEROISM.

THREE MEN REWARDED. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT. PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received January 28, 8.10 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 27. The directors of Carnegie's Hero Fund have awarded medals to Dr Johnston and two men who carried Detective Leeson into safety when lie was wounded in the Sidney Street Anarchist affair. In 1908 Mr Andrew Carnegie gave £250,000 for the creation of a Hero Fund to benefit those who in heroic effort to save human life are injured, i and to provide for their families in case of death. He has established similar funds in France and America. In the Anarchist affray Detective Leeson placed a ladder in position but was shot in the stomach directly he appeared above the wall. The bullet which hit him was identical with those used in the fight at Houndsditch.