A Prisoner’s Bravery
While a working party of five prisoners from the debtor’s ga*d at Strangcways, Manchester, were engag cd on their task outside the prison, a cry was hea*J from a pond close by. The warder in charge called for a volunteer to investigate, and one of the men, Joseph Pemberton, aged 20, went to the pond and found a child struggling in the water. Pemberton dived in and rescued a boy named Cyril Kitrock. The deputy-
vernor of the prison brought his bravery to the notice of the Royal Humane Society, and Pemberton has been awarded the society’s parchment, inscribed with the story of his rescue.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 291, 8 December 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)
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108A Prisoner’s Bravery Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 291, 8 December 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)
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