AN EXCITING SCENE IN GLASCOW.

Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 300, 11 June 1898, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN EXCITING SCENE IN GLASCOW.

♦ An extraordinary occurrence was witnessed at the corner of Rutherglen Road and Commeicial Road, Glasgow, lately, when Mrs Lavine, residing at that aJJress attempted to jump from tho window of her house with a young chili in her arms. Mrs Lavine appeared at the window of her house, gesticulating wildly and carrying a child in her arms. A crowd quickly gathered in the street below, and the woman, after shouting to them, threw open the window and attempted to jump out. The alarm spread to the neighbours and they attempted to enter the house, but found that the door was locked on the inside. At this time the Rev. E. Lloyd Morris, of the Congregational Church, and a native of Liverpool, passed, and, seeing the imminent danger in which the woman and child wero placed, bo attempted to reach the window from tho outside. The houso is on tho first flat, and immediately over a spirit shop. Next door to the spirit shop is a boot shop, and inserted in the wall are a number of iron pins used for the display of the sto'ik. By tho aid of these pins the revorened gentleman climbed up to a narrow ledge which runs along a wall on a level with the first ftorey. and clinging to the wall, he made his way along this and reached the window just in time to prevent the woman throwing herself into the street. He seized the child, but tho woman drew back, causing him to lose bis footing and to fall with the child in his arms into the street. Fortunately the fall was broken by the crowd, and the child escaped unhurt, while Mr Lloyd escaped with a few slight bruises. Meanwhile the door had been broken open by the neigh boun, and the woman was caught just as she went over the window. Such were her struggles that they could not get her back through the window, and she had to be dropped to the street, where three policemen received her. A crowd of many hundred persons assembled, and the rescue was effected admidst the greatest excitement. Mrs Lavine is now under medicil treatrnont.