HOW DID IT HAPPEN?

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 133, 12 June 1909, Page 6

HOW DID IT HAPPEN?

TO THE EDITOR. Sir/ — On Monday I boarded a Jervoisquay tram that met the 12.30 train at Thorndon Station, and on getting out at the Ferry Wharf was thrown on to the road, parcels and all. The conductor helped me up by the arm that was hurt by coining in contact with tho step, and admonished me for getting out while the tram was moving, and % then left me dazed and helpless to pick up my bolongings as best I could. He did not even take my name, which I understand is the thing to do. There were three or four men (?) busily smoking their pipes at tho corner, and who evidently thought it no business of theirs to assist, but at my request one came and carried my parcels to the waiting- room, where I received every kindness from the attendant. Now the question is, did I get off when the tram was moving or was I jerked off by the vigorous brake that i 6 applied sometimes? I am inclined to believe the latter , but, of course, it doesn't matner how an accident happens, the sufferer is always to be blamod. — I am, etc. LAID UP. i.lth June.