A PLUCKY CONSTABLE.
A sensational incident occurred at the Prince's Bridge, Melbourne, when a ivouldbe euiclde was rescued in the nick of time from a watery grave. Conatable Carey noticed the frantic gestures of a youth on the south bank, to the west of the bridge. Ho ran down the atep3 to a spot opposite Brooke and Curries paper mills, when he noticed a cumber of people on the bank, and a man struggling in the water. He addressed a remark to the spectators concerning their inhumanity in seeing a man drown without attempting to save him, and without pausing, he divested him self of his boots, jacket, and helmet, and plunged into the water. The spot where the suicide waa attempted is a cutting full of water, recently made in connection with the works for widening the river. It is very deep, and the risk the constable ran was considerable. The man, however, who had been in the water two minutes before the constable reached the bank, was in the last stage of drowning, and he had no difficulty in bringing him to the bank,
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 181, 4 December 1886, Page 3
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186A PLUCKY CONSTABLE. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 181, 4 December 1886, Page 3
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