A MOTHER’S HEROISM
SACRIFICES HER OWN LIFE. BUT SAVES HER CHILD. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, January 17. Sarah Smith was carrying a child in a street of Hull, when the leases of a motor-oar failed. The driver ehou'-J out, and, realising the danger, the mother faced the car with her back to a wall, holding the baby over her head.
The car crashed into the mother’s ■body and head and crushed her to death, but the baby was saved.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11422, 19 January 1923, Page 7
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