HORRIBLE TRAGEDY AT THE LONDON POST-OFFICE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1082, 3 June 1882, Page 4

HORRIBLE TRAGEDY AT THE LONDON POST-OFFICE.

In a book published in Berlin, under t’ne title of “Scliuhze Muller in London,” is the following passage : —At a quarter to 6 we went to the great post-office. The squeeze was tremendous round the newspaper box, where the newspapers are trust in bales ; and it is, indeed, on a grand scale, since the Times alone has 16,000,000 subscribers. J warned Schultze not to go so near the crush, but he did not hear me. As he was standing, there came a a great shock of newspaper boys running with bales of newspapers and throwing them in at the window. A bale of newspapers hit Schultce on the head ; he loses his balance and tips forward into the bureau ; some officials immediately seize him, stamp him in the stomach, and the unhappy Schultze is despatched in an unpaid newspacket to the provinces. At this moment the box is closed with a snap. I rushed against it and cried, ‘ Schultze ' Schultze !’ But it is too late. Your unhappy son-in-law was already packed in the post-cart. I ran into the bureau of the postmaster, and demanded back your son-in-law. ‘ls your friend addressed he asked. —‘ No,’ I answered. —‘ Very well,’ says the Englishman, ‘ M. Schultze will remain for six months in the bureau, and if no one applies for him, he will be burned as a dead letter.”