He was fifty-five years old when he saved this man.

It was the twenty-ninth person whose life he had saved during his twenty-three years' service in the Department.
The other man was a patrolman whom we promoted to roundsman for activity in catching a burglar under rather peculiar circumstances.

I happened to note his getting a burglar one week.

Apparently he had fallen into the habit, for he got another next week.

In the latter case the burglar escaped from the house soon after midnight, and ran away toward Park Avenue, with the policeman in hot chase.