While a working’ party of five prisoners from the debtor’s gaol at Strangeways, Manchester, was engaged on its task outside the prison, a cry was heard from a pond close by. The warder in charge called for a volunteer to investigate, and one of the men, Joseph Pemberton, aged 20, went to the pond and found a child struggling in the water. Pemberton dived in and rescued a boy named Cyril Kitrock. The deputy governor of the prison brought his bravery to the notice of the Royal Humane Society, and Pemberton has been awarded the society’s parchment, inscribed with the story of his rescue.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20586, 8 December 1928, Page 19
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104Page 19 Advertisements Column 1 Otago Daily Times, Issue 20586, 8 December 1928, Page 19
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