§ MR. BERNARD COLERIDGE (Sheffield, Attercliffe)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been drawn to the following facts:—
A few weeks ago, a workman of the name of Benjamin Stanley fell into a casting-pit at Norfork Works, Sheffield, and lay scorched, and with his clothes in flames, close to a white-hot ingot. Whereupon John Smith, another workman, ran for a ladder, placed. it in the pit and began to descend, but, in his haste, he, too, fell into the pit and was badly burned; but, nevertheless, he seized Benjamin Stanley, who was unconscious, and pulled him away until, with the aid of others, he was lifted out of the pit, bearing with him the body of the man he had tried to save; Benjamin Stanley died, after great suffering, but John Smith, although badly scorched, happily has survived;and, whether Her Majesty's Government will make any recognition of such heroic and self-sacrificing bravery?
§ MR. MATTHEWSYes, Sir; my attention has been called to this matter 884 by the Chief Inspector of Factories, and I am now considering whether the facts of the case are such that I should be justified in recommending to Her Majesty the grant of an Albert Medal.