A BRAVE MAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 116, 16 May 1878, Page 4

A BRAVE MAN.

An account of a brave man eoines to ua from Wales. The other day Mr, Bydder, chief Customs officer at Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, sent his wife with his little girl to Laugharne, in the Customs boat, which was going over. Mrs. Bydder. with the two men in charge of the boat, named Thomas Humphries and "William Davies, on their return to Eerryside across Carmarthen Bay, at a point called "Warley, met with a sudden gust of wind which capsized the boat. Humphries, who was an excellent swimmer, first swam with an oar to support his comrade but be, not being able to swim, soon sank. He then managed to get Mrs. Bydder to hold on to an oar whilst he swam round to the boat to see what could be done. He then got his knife and opened it with his teeth, cut away tha cord age, and after considerable exertion dismasted the boat and righted her ; but as she was lull of water and only slightly buoyant, they could not get into her. He therefore placed the mast across the boat, and got the woman's arm over the mast on one side, whilst he went and hung on at the other side. Mrs. Bydder then snid, " Everyone for himself," and begged him to leave her and save himself, which he could easily have done, being only about thirty yards from the shore. But he knew that if he left, the woman would despair and be drowned, he therefore, remained by her to cheer and assist her for an hour and a half, at the cost of his own life, screaming and shouting all the time for assistance, which arrived but too late. The brave fellow sank from cold and exhaustion, but the woman was saved.