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THE FATAL TRAMWAY ACCIDENT

IN FLINDERS-STREET.

TO THE EDITOB Of TUB ABQOS. I

Sir,-Knowing that you are ever ready

through tho medium of ) our widespread paper to givo praise or pass censure when deserved, and that on the proper person or peraons, is mj apology for asking you to insert this I was astonished on my attention being drawn to a paragraph m one of jour contemporaries, under the heading of " shocking accident,' ia which the cabman is charged with outrageous conduct, being the driver referred to, and believing I have as much humanity as most men, and more than either of the constables mentioned or the reporter who inserted it, though, by the bye, when asked by mo what right he had to interfere, he said ho was a doctor Now, Sir, for the real facts of the case 1 picked up the engine driver in Colima street, and galloped my horse down to the scene of the accident, when the three men in charge of the train, together with myself, came to the conclusion that tho beat way to remove him was on a stretcher 1 akmg one of the threo mentioned into my cab( I galloped off on m) errand of mercy to the watchhouse, the only place where a stretcher could be procured, picking up one of the constables at the corner of rimders lane aud Swanston street, taking him with me to the watchhoaao So you sec, Sir, instead of tho constablea pro curing a cab, it was I who procured the conBtablea I galloped back again with tho constables and the stretcher, when they re fused to use it I pointed out uaing the par ticular word I thought it waa "murder to attempt to place lum in the waggonette, when 1 considered he ought to have been placed full length 'Hie length of the boil) of my waggonette being aft, and the man about 5ft 7m , the mutilated limb must of necessity bedan"ling out of tho waggonette In proof of which, being dark when 1 reached the hospital ono of the officials waa in the let of In)mg hold of the said dangling limb, when 1 told him it was the maus leg, this W13 preparator) to putting him on the stietcber Now, Sir, I leave it to you whether bringing a manto tho hospital as before named waB not gross inhumanity 1 may mention that I have seen mm) victims of accidents taken from the Spencer street station to the hospital where the actual lim b3 have been severed, but in every instance a stretcher WIB emplo)ed ao that they could be lull length I think it will tulse tlie philosophy of tho con stables, and reporter to boot, to disprove the fact th it the inhumanity waa on their eldo ind not mine M ithout wishing to blow ni j own trumpet I may state that I have iilwajs been one of the first to render assist unce to police where it lins either been a case of iccident or otherwise which cn my mern I era of the force could testify to I feel mond Sir to subscribe mjself in full,

WILLIAM ULAlUvh,,

Driver of Waggonette 1 Oí 1.

Vere-street, EaBt Collingwood, Sept. 8. I

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