Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1893 — He Got Away. [ARTICLE]

He Got Away.

A policeman and a supposed crim inal whom he had arrested wtre walking beside the Danubfc at Kel heim, Bavaria, recently, when the prisoner suddenly jumped into the river. The water was full of great blocks of ice, stretching quite across the stream, and the man jumped safely from block to block, reached the opposite bank. The policeman followed, but being less agile, fell between the blocks into the river. His late prisoner had a very nice question in casuistry to decide, and he settled it by plunging into the river, at imminent risk of his life, to save the life of the policeman. He succeeded in getting the officer to land, and then the policeman was in a quandary. He offered to state the case to the authorities and try to get a life-saving medal for his rescuer. But the latter thought he would rather have his liberty, and the policeman promptly set him free, and gave him a couple of marks to help him on his way. The fugitive has not yet been recaptured.