HEROIC WOMAN

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20055, 12 March 1935, Page 2

HEROIC WOMAN

HUSBAND’S LIFE SAVED The courage of Mrs Alice Latimer, aged 25, saved her husband from death renectly when he gripped an electric wire carrying 250 volts on a roof at Leederville, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Paying no heed to shouted warnings by a crowd of men in the street, she climbed a 20ft. ladder over a high corrugated iron roof to the front verandah of a house and dragged her husband from the wires, against wh'-’’ he > -.s lying unconscious. The man was Thomas Harrison Latimer, aged 32, house painter. He was painting the roof of the house adjoining his own home, when apparently his back touched an electric wire. Between 50 and 60 people watched Mrs Latimer climb the ladder and scale the high pitched roof. She slipped on the iron and was saved from a fall to the ground by the guttering. The brave woman then went along the gut luring, climbed over the apex of the roof, lowered herself to the front verandah, and dragged her husband free. She then tried artificial respiration cn the roof. Two men in the crowd brought Mr Latimer to the ground, and, after receiving treatment from a doctor, he was admitted to hospital.