A GALLANT DEED.
SUGGESTED RECOGNITION. ■ Per Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. An application for recognition of the bravery shown by Constable George Baker and J. H. Higginson (a grocer's assistant), both of Featherstone, in rescuing Patrick Crossey from a burning dwelling in Featherston, on March 28 last, has been received by the secretary of the New "Zealand Royal Humane Society. The facts as disclosed in the declarations accompanying the applications, are that at 2.30 p.m.' on the date mentioned a fire broke out in the dwelling of Peter Jacobsen. Constable Baker got into the building through a window, and Higginson followed. Hearing groans in another room, they took hold of each other and succeeded in dragging Crossey out of the room and out of the burning building. Almost immediately afterwards the building collapsed. Jacobsen was burned to death. Crossey was burnt about the face and hands.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 6, 7 June 1913, Page 5
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146A GALLANT DEED. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 6, 7 June 1913, Page 5
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