A silver medallion of the Royal Humane Society has been voted to Miss Cummings, aged eighteeu, who gallantly saved the life of Mrs Jack, the wife of a sixrgeon in the Royal Navy, while bathing near Queenstown. Mr Peter Geskell, aged twenty-six, who held a responsible situation in the Adjutant-General's office at the Horse Guards, has committed suicide by taking a dose of cyanide of potassium. He had been in bad health for some time.
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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 749, 5 November 1870, Page 2
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75Untitled Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 749, 5 November 1870, Page 2
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