Source: Pudsey & Bramley Chronicle
Date: 1868 07 04
Subject: Narrow Escape from Drowning
On Saturday last, a little boy named John Ben Gambles, resising
at Greenside, Pudsey, had a narrow escape from death by drowning. It
appears that the little fellow was, in company with another, playing
about a large tub containing water, and in leaning over the edge lost
his balance and fell over into the water, and would have drowned if
the attentions of some young persons who were pšlaying at cricket
near had not been drawn towards the spot by the bubbling of the water.
The boy was found at the bottom almost dead; he was immediately drawn
out by two boys, and taken to his home which was near at hand, but he
was so far exhausted that it was about an hour before he was restored
to consciousness.
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