Life Saving Incident

( From News account dated 9-15-1914) Officer Jack Golden proved himself a hero yesterday by leaping to the seat of a vegetable wagon drawn by two frightened horses and stopping them just in time to prevent them from trampling little 4 year old Bertha Gulick to death. Golden, who is a mounted officer had just left the Ascot stable at 3rd and G streets when the runaway team came rumbling down third street. Golden ran to meet them, jumped into the wagon and leaning over the dashboard grabbed the reins. The horses had taken the bits in their teeth and Golden was unable to stop their wild dash until almost a block had been covered. At the corner of third and H streets the little Gulick girl attempted to cross the street in the path of the flying horses. She became bewildered and could not decide which way to go to get out of the way of the team. Golden, seeing the child standing helplessly in front the of the horses, forced into action every muscle in his body, and the maddened horses stopped inches from the the little girl. In speaking of the incident, Sergeant George Pringle, in charge of the mounted squad, remarked that it was one of the most daring rescues he had ever witnessed.