LOVERS RESCUED BY A BURGLAR

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13335, 25 March 1911, Page 5

LOVERS RESCUED BY A BURGLAR

WHY THE HERO WAS SO MODEST. Two lovers were strolling along a canal bank on the outskirts of Paris one day last month, when they quarrelled. Hie woman suddenly ran from her companion and threw herself into the water. Though but a bad swimmer, her companion at once jumped in to rescue her, but he was unable to do so, arid both were in peril of drowning. At this moment a stranger came along and, seeing the struggling couple, bravely jumped in and succeeded in bringing both the man and the woman to the bank, where they were soon revived. A cheering crowd assembled to congratulate the rescuer, who, however, showed great reluctance to being lionised. In fact, when two policemen came on the scene and insisted that the name and address of so bravo a man should be taken, he fled. The policemen pursued and caught him. Their surprise was great when they found that the gallant rescuer was a burglar for whom the police were anxiously searching. He was taken into custody. It was expected that the gallant rescue would lead to his dismissal, or at least to a reduction in any sentence that might otherwise have been passed on him for his less heroic deeds.