SAVED BY A DRUNKEN COACHMAN.
The following paragraph, interesting if true, appears in a Home > paper “ Baroness Erlanger, wife of the wellknown banker, owes her life for the second time to the tippling propensities of her coachmen. This gentleman was half seas over when driving his mistress to the Nice Theatre on the night it was burnt, and the Consequence was that he took a Wrong turning and found himself a couple of miles on the road to [Mentone before he, discovered his mistake. When the Baroness reached Nice the theatre waa already in flames. On the night the King Theatre was destroyed the same coachman had orders to put to the horses at half-past 7 to drive the Baroness to the theatre, .but at a quarter to 8 he was still in amorous dalliance with the bottle, and on reaching the Schettenfing at a quarter past 8 the Baroness was informed of the awful calamity.” Our contemporary adds that the coachman was handsomely rewarded—on what principle it is not easy to see...
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2781, 21 February 1882, Page 2
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173SAVED BY A DRUNKEN COACHMAN. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2781, 21 February 1882, Page 2
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