EXPRESS HALTED
BUSINESS MAN GETS CONTRACT. LONDON, November 1. Mr John Guthrie Sutherland, a Birmingham business man, had a. chance at last of securing a £IO,OOO contract which he had sought to net ior three years. He rushed to ix station to catch an express train, but found the train would not stop there. The booking clerk refused to stop the train. The signal man refused to stop the train. So tho business man, at the risk of his life, jumped in front of the engine, stopped the train, climbed aboard — and landed bis contract. After being fined at the local Court for stopping the train, Mr Sutherland related the story. He said: “Business is business, especially in these hard times. The way these railway people carried on. you would have, thought 1 had committed a. sacrilege. “The railway company, as it happens, will 'receive £2OBO additional takings through my stopping the train, despite the fact that they tried to get mo two years’ imprisonment with hard labour under the Malicious Damage Act for doing it.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1932, Page 7
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176EXPRESS HALTED Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1932, Page 7
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