A HUMBLE HERO.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1329, 5 January 1912, Page 6

A HUMBLE HERO.

TOOK.PART IN SEARCH FOR r .-FK AX-KLIN. , William Coutts, tho Edinburgh street works' uvuchm.-'.ii who was killed by a taxi-rab in Cbtuis.tqii Road -recently, was a humble hero who-had served the nation iir historical.- expeditions.. . :.'. The octogenarian endured great hardships in one..of tho many Arctic expe-dition?-which' went in search of Sir John Franklin and his crews. In 13'i9 he was i>nc of the crow of fifty-one with Captain Penny, of the Lady Franklin, which sailed from Aberdeen for' Barrow Straits, arid was reported to h'avo found soma remains of tho discoverer of tho. Xorth-West Passai:o. ' ..-:'.......■'■■' ' " . Tlie Lady Franklin was one of'.'four vessels simulbne-3ii--.ly.at search work in the Arctic, regions, tho other ships being her sister- ship Tho b'opia, H.M.S. IJcsolutc, and .H.M'-S. Assistance. C'butts was a me.ro youth- at the time when ho ret'out with :tko,. Lady I'raukliri.. It was tho Assistance, however, which first came «cross the. gra.ve.3 of tho seamen.on Boachy Island,, while thu vessels were ice-bound. Thu remains of tho camp, including large quantities of rotting provisions, were also found, and it appeared that the seamen had died during tho first winter in the Arctic. Coutts, some years later, was under firo when .one-- of the , crew aboard .H..V.S. Flack I'rine.e, .which was engaged in running thu bloclciido with provisions and carryhisr dispatches during the Crimean War. , .'He had a narrow escape on board the ship when her hows we're "blown away by a- shell from α-liussian fort.