SON SAVES MOTHER
RESCUE FROM A FIRE
Dragged from her bed in a. semi-con-scious condition, Mrs Eliza Jane Wright bad a narrow escape from death at Redfern, Sydney, recently, when her house caught lire. Flames broke out at a factory shortly after 4 a.m. The building at- one end was badly damaged.
A galvanised iron wall fell on the back portion of the residence of Mrs Wright. She was pulled from bed by her son, Frederick Shiner, who lives next door. He forced open the front door of his mother’s residence, and found smoke pouring through a ventilator into her bedroom. She was in a semi-conscious condStion. He carried her to bis house.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 24 June 1926, Page 5
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113SON SAVES MOTHER Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 24 June 1926, Page 5
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