A POINTSMAN'S PLUCK.
i . ■ <> ADVENTURE WITH A SNAKE. ! [Special to Press Association.! BRISBANE, Mat '23. A railway employe named E wing was Bhuntiog a heavily-laden mixed train at the Alpha station to allow a special to pass, when a large ( brown snake crawled out of the points box, over his hands and shoulder, down hie back, and escaped. Ewing pluokily held on to the lever and allowed the train to cross Bafely. When questioned afterwards he said it he had let the lever go the train would have been wrecked, and probably many lives would have been lost. - It was simply a case of many lives or one. Besides, hie own safety depended on his keeping cool and nninf.
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Star (Christchurch), 23 May 1895, Page 3
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119A POINTSMAN'S PLUCK. Star (Christchurch), 23 May 1895, Page 3
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