LIFE-SAVING RECORD
40 PEOPLE RESCUED LONDON COSTER'S GOOD WORK LONDON, Feb. 26 Patsy Hackett, a typical London coster, who sells vegetables on .a barrow and lives near the Grand Union Canal, has already saved 40 people from drowning. Most of the people saved aro children. All his life he has been in the habit of patrolling the shores of the canal. He plunges in fully dressed when he sees anyone in trouble. He once rescued simultaneously a person who tried to commit suicide and two school children.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22046, 28 February 1935, Page 11
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