Part 19 (1/2)

To the above letter the following reply was sent to the _Tied Accident on the Great Northern

”To the Editor of the _Times_

”Sir,-The Directors of the Great Northern railill feelstatement in the _Times_ to-ned 'Thoton, MD, of Wakefield,' and headed, 'Accident on the Great Northern railway'

There was no accident whatever yesterday on the Great Northern railway

The trains all reached King's Cross with punctuality, theonly five ton is known at Morley's Hotel, whence the letter in question is dated

I a's Cross, March 27

In the _Ti appeared a letter froton, of Wakefield, (Edward not ”Thomas”) confired Accident on the Great Northern railway

”To the Editor of the _Times_

”Sir,-My attention has been called to a letter in the _Titon, MD, of Wakefield') the signature of which is as gross and impudent a fabrication as the circumstances which the writer professes to detail I need only say there is no 'MD'

here naton but myself, and that I was not on the Great Northern or any other Railway on the 26th inst, when the accident is alleged to have occured

Having obtained possession of the original letter, I have handed it to my solicitors, in the hope that theyto justice the perpetrator of this very stupid hoax

I aton, MD

Wakefield, March 28

A'PENNY A MILE

Two costers were looking at a railway time-table

”Say, Jem,” said one of them, ”vot's PM mean?”

”Vy, penny a mile, to be sure”

”Vell, vot's AM?”

”A'penny a mile, to be sure”