A LUCKY ESCAPE
PRINCE SAVES AN ENGINEER
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this dav at LI a.m., LONDON, May 15. The Prince of Wales’s presence of mind during the North-cast Coast ExLi! j Lion, saved Guiness Freeman, of tho exhibition, from an ugly and possibly fatal accident. Guiness was sitting on a ladder above a mass of tin-can making machinery which was rotating at a high speed, pointing out the features to the Prince. Guiness snatched at a tin accidentally caught in the machine and slipped off the ladder. He hung with his 'feet within a few inches of the open machinery. The Prince grabbed his overalls hut they slipped from his fingers and Guiness was again threatened with tho loss of his legs, until the Prince gripped a second timo and dragged' Guiness to safety.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1929, Page 5
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137A LUCKY ESCAPE Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1929, Page 5
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