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Show SACRIFICES LIFE TO SAVE OTHERS DETROIT, May 17. Police Oftioor Henry Walpole aarly this morning sacrificed sac-rificed his ilfs to save the lives of several people sleeping in tbe third story of a building which was shst tared by an explosion, believed to have .been eauaed bv gasoline. Walpole rushed from the police station sta-tion nearby, fought hie way through the flames and succeeded in alarming the sleepers. Then he succumbed to sn attsrk of heart disease. One man, Jesse Gore, sustained injuries. He wss blown through n second story window and landed in the atreet, but was not badly hurt. The building was destroyed, de-stroyed, totaling loss of nearly $35,-U0u. |