Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-09-25 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

REWARDS FOR BRAVERY.  - . The Royal Humane Society's silver medallion was unanimously voted to Mire Yetta Westley, for the following not of courage; On the morning of July 22, Miss Catherine Elirabeth Bulkley, the daughter of Mr. George Culkley. barrister, while bathing in the era at St. Andrew's, We, in swimming from one rock to another, WM carried frond her cams • by the current, and was very odueld exhausted, having already sunk once, when Kiss 'fate Westiey, who was dressing on the shore softer her loath, plunged into the as., and, *miniing as the other younglady, esembt her hy the heir and took her to shore, a diatom° of fifty yards, Min Wentley being herielf much exhausted by her exertions. The eilver medallion was also granted to Nixem Din, a native polioo-constable at Nurhinnahal, in the , Punjab. for saving a man named Mori, a Bheeetie, by I jumping down a deep well at the imminent danger of I being his own life on the evening of March 96 last. I The moiety's medallion was also awarded to the Rev. (firths Wellman, vicar of likulcoates, for plunging into the Bermsion Canal, on the 9th idt., to the resoue of Joseph Parkin, who had aceidentally fallen into the water while smiling a toy-boat, the canal at the time .being much swollen from reosnt henry rain, and the rev. gentleman's exertions being much impeded from having all his clothes on exmpt his mat ;to Edward Trice for saving John Freston, who, while bathing, slipped -off a reek into a bay forty-eight feet deep at Dingle Point, River Mersey, 00 Jule t 9; to William Winter for Baring Herold Williams, both of them, with another man, twin: precipstated into the writer from the sinking of the diugey of her Majeety's ship Cruiser. in Beath. Heads, on the tad It., and to George Wren for: saving William Winter, who sank from exhaustion slier eating Harold Williams; to E. A. West, for jumping from the after - gangway of her Majmtv'e ship Aerlanioun to the rescue of G. F. Tomlins, who attempted suicide by jump. ing from the bow-port, and was being rapidly carried sway by a eery strong current, at Hull. on the 25th ult.; to Joke Comity, a boy of 14, for saving David J. Rice, who, while walking along the embank meat at Revery, fell into the river, on the 22nd ult.; to William. James Bridges, a lad of 16, for saving F. Ebbs, wbo, while barbing in the river Ouse, near Went lens, was taken off his feet by an eddy and carried into deeper water on July 30, it being incidentally mentioned that this was the second occasion on which Bridges had been instrumental in saving life from drowning ; to Mr. F. Bingemann, for diving into the Thames near Windsor to the residue of e boy named Kimble, who had sunk there on the 3rd ult.; to Wm. W. ;Witham, a lad of 16, fur leaping from the pier at Littlehampton, height of 3014, to the rescue of George Robinson, who was in danger of drowning there On July 28, the tide at the time running at the tsto of flee miles an hour, and malting it extremely difficult for anyone to swim against it, and the danger being much increased by the difficulty of landing at that part of the river; to A. Cl. Whitehead, for jumpi g off the pier at the; mouth of the harbour, Dunbar, to the rescue of D. Lorrimsn on the 12th ult.; to Richard Donovan, for saving Winnifred Cluskay. who fell into the River Bayne and was carried down upwards of 100 yards by the current on Jury 23; to Richard Norwood, for saving A. Forster, who was carried out of his depth while bathing at Southend-on Sea on the 18th ult.; and to John Walsh°, for saving Thomas Travers, who got out of idis depth while bathing at Lough Ryan, Leitrim, on the 15th ult.,