GAVE HIS LIFE TO SAVE A CHILD.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2427, 19 November 1892, Page 3

GAVE HIS LIFE TO SAVE A CHILD.

The story of the death of Mr Stanley Copland in a gallant attempt to save the lefe of a child at Walton-on-the-Naze is one of the saddest in the ever lengthening list of tragedies of the seaside. Mr Copland, a young man of 21, son of a well-known and respected resident at Chelmsford, was walking on the terrace by the shore. A ciy was raised that a child had fallen over the breakwater, and without waiting to divest himself of any portion of his clothing save his coat and vest, the young fellow plunged into the sea and swum towards the spot. Another gentleman named Miller, a railway clerk, observed that Copland appeared to be making but slow progress, so he too plunged in, and swimming faster, was the first to reach the child. When he truned with it for shore he missed his brave competitor. In passing him Miller, as he explained in his evidence before the coroner, ‘ he did not speak 1o the other gentleman.’ ‘We were both,’ he added, with a fine unconscious touch of pathos, intent on saving the child.’ Encumbered by his saturated clothing and heavy boots, or attacked, as it is thought, by cramp, Copland had still struggled on till his powers, though he was an excellent swimmer, had become exhausted, and, without even a call for help he had sunk. Home paper.