A WINDFALL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1293, 10 December 1886, Page 3

A WINDFALL.

A young man named Richard Wilkinson, carpenter, of Stourbridge, has just received news that a large property, consisting of mining property to the value of L 25,000, and money to the value of L 1,460, has been bequeathed to him in the north of England by aMrW. C. Willis. In the spring of 1882 Wilkinson was at work in the neighbourhood of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and on the evening of the sth April after finishing work, he went ont for a stroll along the Tyneside. He was walking by :ths. side of the river between Wallsend and Newcastle, and saw a gentleman approaching in the opposite direction who had been seised with giddiness from a fit coming on, and before Wilkinson came up he had fallen into the river ' The latter lost no time in hastening to the rescue,and though he could not swim he jumped in after the stranger. The water was not deep a* the spot, or it would have gone badly with both of them, for, as it was, the rescuer had a struggle to get his man out. He could not speak for about ten minutes, and then he said ho should have been dead if Wilkinson had nob happened to see him and save him. The gentleman, who was a Mr W. G. Willis, of good position in the neighbourhood, was very exhausted, and Wilkinson assisted him home. Both were drenched and Mr Willis offered his helper a change of clothes, which he said he did not want, as he would make his way to his lodgings. Mr Wiliis gave him ss, and said; “You have saved my life to-night, - and I shall never forget you as long as 1 live.”

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