WITHIN AN ACE OF DEATH
A BRAVE PORTER. By Telegraph—Preas Association. Hastings, Last Night.
[ The dangerous practice of receiving and dispatching trains from the outer line of rails at Hastings' railway station would have resulted in a terrible accident this morning but for tho courageous action of Porter Gordon. A lady passenger from Hastings to Palmer-, ston crossed the line and boarded the train for Napier. When told of her mistake ijhe stepped backwards right in front of the Napier-Wellington express.' Porter Gordon, seeing the womanV. great danger, jumped, with barely four yards to spare, in front of the incoming" train, and, carrying the woman him across the line, saved her life, 1
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 280, 23 May 1912, Page 5
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113WITHIN AN ACE OF DEATH Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 280, 23 May 1912, Page 5
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