BRAVE WOMEN REWARDED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3300, 19 August 1911, Page 3

BRAVE WOMEN REWARDED.

RECOGNISED BY HIS COLLEAGU For their gallantry in securing ■ capture of a man who had made ruffianly attack on a policeman, i Southend women—Mrs Rose Dew < Mrs Agatha Shrewe —were each ] tented by the local police force with inscribed silved teapot the other day. A few weeks ago Constable Bird ' on duty in Hartington Road, wt about midnight, two watermen proached him, singing and shout boisterously. He asked them to in less noise.

Suddenly, one of the men, Stai Childs, struck the constable a ter blow on the jaw, knocking his h against a lamp-post. Before the sailant could make his escape Mrs r .ha* mg seen had occurred, m out and called the man a coward, tnaue off, but she followed him, and great personal risk, held him by coat collar, while -Mrs Shrewe hie whistle to summon assistance, ui mayed by the imprecations of the wr man. In the meantime the officer had.; appeared, and was found some h afterwards a mile awa 'mite unahl give any account of himself. It some days before lie regained his : os. Childs was fined £o for assaulting constable. His excuse was that- it his Birthday, and he had been dj mg. He regretted assaulting thej cer as 'lie was a friend of his. j The officers and men of the div felt they could not allow so pi up deed to go unrewarded, and togt they subscribed sufficient money tc each of the women a suitable souv. the presentation taking place parade. Superintendent Mardenj liclv thanked the women for theiiT oiy. • :