Pardoned for Neglect of Duty.
One day lasfc winter a postman named Hutchinson, while engaged collecting letters on his round in ■ Sheffield saw a. boy struggling in the i Don where the river was deep and coated withico. Plunging in, clothes and all, the brave man, after two minutes' immersion found the boy ; and though the current bore them some distance away, he at length reached the bank, and carried the I lad home. He then got a cabman ' to take his bag to the Post Office , with a letter, saying, " 1 am very f I sorry suc-h a thing has occurred ( [alluding to his not being in a fit . state to complete the collection] , but i . I could not bear to see the poor lad ' struggling in the water, and nobody but " myself ' to give him any assis- , tance.. I hope yon will pardon me \ for my negligence of duty in such an , instance as this." Pardoned ! Of . course he was pardoned, and the Postmaster- General having referred the case to the Royal Humane Society, that body gave the heroic postman a modal . All things considered, however, that seem.? hardly a sufficient in ward for such a noble action— so modestly done too. — From Little Folks Magazine for NoI'omliai*
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Manawatu Herald, 3 March 1894, Page 3
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210Pardoned for Neglect of Duty. Manawatu Herald, 3 March 1894, Page 3
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