A Plucky Girl.
Bessie Matthews, aged twenty, was given a .watch and chain at the King’s Cross - Police Station recently in recognition of hex p.ucky < nducfc in coming to tho rescue of a constable. Iho presen* wa : si, Vicrib.for by ..f... .. gleabout midnighta j, isonor snatched a constable’s whisth and broke away. The was at-.the mercy of a hostile crowd. The girl, however caught the runaway, and, wrenching the whistle from him 1 , blew it till assistance came. . She aDo held on to the prisoner until the other constables. arrived. The constables gave the girl three ringing cheers as she left with her gift.
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Wairoa Bell, Volume XX, Issue 219, 18 February 1908, Page 4
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104A Plucky Girl. Wairoa Bell, Volume XX, Issue 219, 18 February 1908, Page 4
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