A HEROIC DEATH
, ; —* —- HOW MRS. MACICY DIED ON THE .. LUSITANIA. < x By telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Aiigugt 23. _ Auckland ami Australia?! travellers in America who returned by_ the Niagara from Vancouver, which anivocl'i 11' Auckland to-day, have been in touch with survivors of the Lu3itania outrage, and aro able to. give first information as to fclie sad.end of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Macky, two well-known citizens of Auckland, who were drowned in the .terrible disaster. The elderly couple mot their end'with calmness and heroism. When the' boats , were being ' lowered there -was one, seat left, which was offered to Mrs. Macky. _ Quietly and firmly slip declined it in favour of a younger woman. "I am getting old, and would rather stay with my husband. You aro younger, and havo life before you," she is reported to have said to the other • lady. The last glimpse of the couple : was of them standiiig on deck calmly awaiting the end. On arriving in London, the lady to whom Mrs. Macky surrendered her Beat advertised to obtain the address of Jack Macky, and told him the story 'of his parents' death.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19150824.2.5
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2548, 24 August 1915, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
188A HEROIC DEATH Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2548, 24 August 1915, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in