DARING RESCUE BY A GUARDSMAN.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1088, 19 September 1883, Page 2

DARING RESCUE BY A GUARDSMAN.

{London Telegraph.) 7 One evening at Perranporth, near Truro, the driver of a'wagonette party, wandering on the beach, found his retreat cut off by the tide. He essayed to climb the cliffs, but when half way up, he found progress _impossible and descent certainly fatal. The ledge on which he was supported would only give spsoe for one foot, and the ground to he clung above was loose and crumbling. For some hours he endured this suspense, when the visitors descried him from above. The news spread and a crowd congregated, but none dared venture along the slight ledge, by which a’one the man could be approached. .To have thrown a rope would have been useless, for the effort to catch it would certainly have caused the poor fellow to fall.

A const guardsman,. named Regan, volunteered to be let down 100 feet ovor the face of the cliff and while he descended the excitement was quickened tenfold. The roan below could only hold out a little longer and the least disturbance on the earth around him would inevitably cause bis destruction. -In breathless eagerness the spectators saw the one man near the other. .By a sudden effort the const guardsman clasped the man he had endeavored to save with a sudden and strong grip, and they swung off the ledge together. Even then danger was not at an end but a descent was safely effected to a ledge -below, whence access to the summit was gradually gained. The spectators were too overcome to cheer, hilt they did what was belter—collected a good round sura for the gallant coast guardsman.