BRAVE POLICEMAN.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13647, 12 February 1913, Page 3

BRAVE POLICEMAN.

Among the offieer^of police, forces to whom his^ ]&aj6sty","; ha<j. awarded the King's Police ftledalare: • .;. ; ..'-,

■. Sir Melviil« Leslie-, Macnaughten, Assistant .Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and \for:,the last ten years the responsible head of >the Criminal Investigation Department. Sergeant Henry^.Xinaker.:and Conetablo Chrisitopher ~ Adamspn, Lancaelhire Constabulary, for conspicuous gallantry in arresting a man, who, dux-, ing ■fch'ej struggle, fired thr.ee,., revolver, shots one of: which v wounded- the sergeint'!aiid;'another\thei constable, . I Con stableCliatrles B^rg, City of London Police, wounded and incapacitated from further service in, a gallant attempt to arrest tlie ihan who shot at Mr Leopold de Rothscliild in hie.motorcar. "''.'] ':":'■. ■". ".." ■ ' >■...,

" Constable Thomas Ravening, Metropolitan who. though knocked down and kicked brought ia runaway horse to a standstill by clinging to. the ■reins.'"" ' " . • • ' . ■■''''■■'■:

Constable Joseph Root, Metropolitan Police,' who plunged into the Thames, on a strong ebb tide in the. middle ..of the night and rescued a woman who had fallen from the Embankment.

' Inspector Fred Stafford,;, Yorkshire (West Riding) Constabulary, who seiz-; ed an iron sheet and led hie men to the arrest of a man firing shots at the police from the top of a staircase.