A Narrow Escape.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 148, 28 May 1885, Page 3

A Narrow Escape.

An exceedingly narrow \ escape from what might have been a 'caw of certain death occurred at Wanganuion Monday. .As the people wens returning from the racecourse about dusk Fred Potto, the well-known, jockey, whh standing on Iho railway Hue at the junction of Churton and 1 imcitie Streets. The whittle of a locomotive wus suddenly heard from the direction of the railway stut.ou, but Potto did hoi move from bis dangerous portion.' The attention of the bystanders was taken ifphy an expressman hurrying along to cross the line brfoiv tin;' train ouiue up, but as the noise of ihe apjitoachirg train was 'heard, cr es wl warning were raised. l*otu», however wai too drunk to heed them, and would certainly have met a horrible fate m a moment or two m'uv but for tli» pluck and presence of .. iiiiud <<f Mr Wo«»ds, the cemetery iiare-taker, who coinidg down 1 ngestni-street and hearing the shouts, dashed on the line caught hold of Potto, and threw him oft the line, falling him»elf on the opposite bank. Mr Woods was only just m time* for m two or three seconds more th« engine would have beeu upon the unfortunate man, and Potto would have been a mangled corpse-. The spectators were loud iv their |n-a]s«j of the reccn •>)''* presence of mind and lira very.— Chronicle.