A NICE MAN.
—o— A ghastly story is'going tho round of the clubs relative to tho late fearful railway accident at Shipton. Among the passengers by the ill fated train was a stockjobber. When the carriages where hurled over tho embankmentlhe escaped with slight injury and dragging himself from tho dead and the wounded around him he stood for a moment and oontompted the awful scone. The groans of the dying, the shrieks of the wounded rang in his ears; by a marvellous interposition of Providence ho had escaped a fearful doom, he had emerged from the jaws of death, ho stood, as it were upon tho confines of the grave. At a moment so supreme what did he do f Did he lift up his voice and weep ? Did ho return fervent thanks for his deliverance? Did he see what he could do for his fellow creatures ? Not a hit of it ho just took to his heels and ran as fast as’he could to a telegraph office, and wired his clerk to sell 25 Great Westerns. Tho story ia anthenciated on the Stock Exchange, and a fitting pendant to it appears among the advertisements in Wednesday’ Times. A gentlemen offers a reward for his railway rug, “ last seen covering a dead body near Shipton." Rumour asserts that the author of the cold-blooded advertisement and the enterprising stockjobber are one and tho same person.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 684, 28 May 1875, Page 3
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