BRAVE ACTION OF WOMAN REMEMBERED
Press Assn.
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FYDXFY, Feb. 20. A womnn who, 35 years ago, saved a polieeman from injury at risk to her self, was remembered by the poliee to day in the ipiarter sessions of the Ap ; peal Court. i »She was appealing for tlie return oi; a 1)011(1 oi' £di) forfeited when he; nephi;w ab.sconded while awaitiug tlu hearing of an appeal against thm j months' gaol sentence. Tiie Clerk of Peace narrated the faets reiated lo him bv a rotired Poliee Rer geant who said that the wornan had eome to his assistanee when, as a young constable, he had been atlaeked bv thugs in Woolloomooloo. When he wa lying on the ground and being kicked and beaten, the woman had thrown herpelf aeross his body. The sergeant was pofiitive that she had saved his Jife. irr. .Tustiee Hold said that he thought that brave aetion should be taken into eonsideration and remitfcd her liabil
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Chronicle (Levin), 28 February 1947, Page 5
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