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Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1921, Page 1

HEROIC MOTHER. NEW YORK, April 12. A mother’s marvellous courage in saving her child from a terrible death is reported from White Plains, near New York. Mrs Guiding, the wife of a farmer, missing her lfi-lnos.-old son, noticed that some boards covering a disused well outside the bouse had been displaced. Rushing to the well, she heard cries from the baby in the well, which is 40 feet deep and half filled with water. Mrs Guiding, who is daily expecting a second baby ,climbed without a moment’s hesitation into the well, and (dinging to the projections on the slimy sides went down to the rescue. She reached the child pust in time and placed him across her shoulder. Then she began her perilous ascent. There was no one near to whom slio could call for help, but in spite of tlie fear of the 20feet of black water into which the least silp would send her and her lmby she dragged herself and the child to the top of the well. She collapsed over the parapet, but a moment later strugged to he r feet and, applying artificial respiration to tho child, brought him round. Neither the mother nor the child appear tho Worse for the torrible experience.