SIR T. UPTON'S ADVENTURE.

Lake County Press, Issue 2134, 6 September 1906, Page 6

SIR T. UPTON'S ADVENTURE.

ARRESTED VVHJJLE MOTORING IN FRANCE. Sir Thomas Liptoi) luid during' a recent motor (our in France a somewhat unpleasant experience of the French peasant where motorists are concerned. In company with Colonic! Neill, R. I''... Sir Thomas, says the "Mail," was on his way to Bordeaux, and passing through Castelsarrasin, in the (iaroune, on a market-day, was run into l>.\ a dogcart. The horse! was restive and unmanageable, and' in the collision the occupants of the dogcart were thrown out. Immediately everyone in the neighbourhood rushed round the travellers and regardless of explanations insisted that Sir Thomas and Ids friend should go to (he police-station They were arrested by the gendarmes and convex ed there with the car. The matter looked for a lime black, but was speedily compromised, however, on Sir Thomas Lipton slipping into the hand of the driver and! owner of Ihe dogcart a few louis. "It was the only way out of live diinrully," Sir Thomas said. "As soon as he got the money the man chanced his tone completely and became (piiie courteous and 'stipple,' even in the extent of saving that the accident was his own fault." '