The Cost of Courage

In Toronto, on Oct. 15, 1930, Taxi-driver Alfred Reddish chased a hit-&-run driver for five miles, caught him, turned him over to police. Toronto's police commissioners commended Reddish for "outstanding citizenship."

Then, on April 20, 1945, a holdup man got into Reddish's cab, shoved a gun in his face. Reddish resisted, helped capture the gunman. For that Toronto's police commissioners gave him a silver tray inscribed: "For his courageous action . . . alertness and ingenuity. . ."

Last week, when another holdup man tried the same thing, good citizen Reddish, 53, again resisted. This time the gunman got away. Behind him he left brave Alfred Reddish, shot through the head, dead.

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