Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1908 — GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN [ARTICLE]

GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN

Heroic New Yorker Saves Mother and Child, but Dies Saving the j Little One. New York. Sept. 8. —Though badly burned John Tuck, a retired real estate dealer, returned to a burning apartment in Brooklyn for a missing child, and saved it. but at the expense of his own life. He had already rescued tile mother. Mrs. William Clampet, using his coat to protect her as he carried her down the stairs. She cried for her child when the street was reached Disregarding bis own Injuries Tuck hurried back and safely brought the infant out of the house. On his second trip he was unable to pre vent catching fire. When he laid the child ir. Its mother's arms, he collapsed and died. Neither Mrs Clampet nor her child received serious injuries.