HEROIC WOMAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 81, 4 March 1935, Page 8

HEROIC WOMAN.

PERILOUS RESCUE ON ROOF. The courage of Mrs Alice Latimer, aged 25, saved her husband from death when he gripped an electric wire carrying 250 volts on a roof at Leederville, a suburb of Perth. Paying no heed to shouted warnings by a crowd of .men and women in the street, she climbed a 20ft ladder over a high corrugated iron roof to the -front verandah of a house in Galwey Street, and dragged her husband from the wires, against which he was dying unconscious. The man was Thomas Harrison Latimer, 32, house painter. He was painting the roof of the house adjoining his own home, when apparently his back touched an electric wire. Between 50 and 60 people watched Mrs Latimer climb the ladder and scale the high pitched roof. She slipped on the iron and was saved from a fall to the ground by the guttering. She then went along the guttering, climbed over the apex of the roof, lowered herself to the front verandah, and dragged her husband free. She then tried artificial respiration on the roof. Two men in the crowd brought Latimer to the ground, and, after receiving treatment from a doctor, he was admitted to hospital.