SAVED BY CAT

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10301, 10 January 1927, Page 2

SAVED BY CAT

AW A KENS SEEK L’.i NG KA M ILY IN FIRE.

LONDON. Oef. 26,

Sam. a tabby cat, saved four lives this morning when the Market House Inn, Weymouth, was gutted by fire.

Mr. Arthur \V. Taylor, the licensee, and ins three children would have perished in their sleep, for they were practically overcome by smoke when Sam awakened one of the children by jumping on the bed aiuT scratching her face. The upstairs rooms were filled with smoke.

The family -were trapped for the staircase was blazing and the upstair rooms were a furnace. Pelico-sergt. Richardson discovered the outbreak at the same moment, and when Air. Taylor dropped his children, in their night attire, into the street,-the officer caught them. Then Mr. Taylor scrambled out.

Mr. Taylor, who is a Dorset County foot-bailer, and was formerly captain of Weymouth, F.C., said later that he owed hi.s life and the lives ol tho children to the cat.

“When my daughter Florence ran into my room alter the cat. had scratched her lace, she said she and the ether children ‘felt funny.’ I did not realise that anything was serious, but when I struck a mutch the room was so full of smoke that the match would not burn.” Bam dashed out of they burning building, and is now roaming about the roofs in the neighborhood.