Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1913 — Penalty for Life-Saving. [ARTICLE]

Penalty for Life-Saving.

There are no half measures shoot the law. If it moans to be absurd, absurd it will be. The Leo coroner was about to hand five shillings to a bargeman for pulling a woman out of the water, when It was pointed out that the woman was alive when rescued. As a result the man got no reward. Had the woman been dead ho would have been given fin ttMMh ygftflW • -A