POLICEMAN HERO
LIFE GIVEN VAINLY LONDON. Oct. 11. "I don't want a respirator," exclaimed Constable Edwin Cook, holder of a Military Medal, when ho learned that David Williams, in attempting to. rescue a fellow workman, Richard Ball, who was suffocating at the bottom of an underground electric chamber at Nottmg Hill that had not been opened for five years, had also collapsed. Cook saw a man apparently sitting waist-deep in water. lie tied a handkerchief to his face, and descended the 25ft shaft, SergeantJoyce retaining the end of a chain attached to his arm. Cook collapsed and Joyce telephoned the tire brigade. Fireman Garner, descended by a rope, but he, too, collapsed, and was hauled up, and revived. Then a gas squad, forcing its way through thousands of horrified spectators, donned gas-masks and descended. They brought up the trio, but for two hours unfailingly attempted restoration. Cook died in hospital, and the others in the street. Cook was married last year, and only recently became a father.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16476, 21 October 1927, Page 11
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