" A MISERABLE SAILOR."

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14531, 19 November 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)

" A MISERABLE SAILOR."

RESCUED WOMAN'S HEARTLESSNES. An* extraordinary occurrence is reported from America of a sailor named Eugene Audit, who was a member of the crew of the battleship Kansas. Audit lost his life in the Hudson in saving a woman who had fallen into the river. The ! woman was apparently pushed off on© of the smaller piers by the crowds which thronged it, and who were anxious to see the Jack Tars from the fleet. Audit leaped overboard, and diving under the woman held her up until she had beerf (helped to a placet of safety by his comrades. In the struggle of getting her into the boat, however, the woman lost a diamond ring from her finger, and believing it to have fallen in the boat, in ; her excitement cried out to those who were reached out to Audit, who was still in the water, "Oh, let him go and hunt for my ring What's a miserable sailor worth?"

This so angered Audit's shipmates that they attempted to throw" the woman overboard again, but Ensign Blackburn, who was at the tiller, sternly commanded them to leave her alone, and had her immediately put ashore in charge of the police, who wore 011 the pier. Meanwhile Audit had been struggling to reach the boat, but a swift tide had borne him away, and becoming exhausted he sank before his friends could, reach him. It is said that the polico. know the name of the woman who was so indifferent to the safety of her rescuer, but they refuse to divuluaii^.