A CURIOUS INCIDENT.
“ The most remarkable experience which I had abroad,” said an American lady to a New York Times writer, “ happened before I touched a foreign shore. At Bremen, where we landed, we were taken off in a tug. As we were steaming to the wharf we approached very close to a vessel crossing our path, and for a few seconds a collision seemed imminent. A man whom I had noticed on the passage, but did not know at all, completely lost his head at this crisis. He was sitting near me; but he suddenly rose, took off his high hat. put it in my lap, and with the hasty exclamation, ‘ Pleaso keep this,’ leaped overboard. Though every attempt was made to rescue him, lie was drowned there before our eyes ; and I landed, a short time later, carefully holding his silk hat, which, by his last will and testament, was certainly mine.”
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 16, 15 July 1893, Page 10
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154A CURIOUS INCIDENT. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 16, 15 July 1893, Page 10
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