THE ACCIDENT AT SUBURBAN NORTH
To the Editor of the Colonist Sir, —On Saturday Jast a reckless party from town rode along this thoroughfare at a rate which, to use the expression of a person whose grandchildren narrowly escaped being knocked over by them, " was like persons who had escaped from Bedlam." Mr T. Frost was returning home, and was only a short distance from it, when he was knocked over by one of them with such force that ho was sent flying a yard or two, and unfortunately trampled on as well. He was assisted home by his two brothers (who witnessed the accident) and gradually got worse, when about 11 o'clock Dr Squires was sent for, who promptly attended, and under his kind exertions the sufferer is progressing. Fortunately though much hurt no bones were broken. Mr Frost had been totheDoctor'sthatday through a sack of wheat having fallen on his hand and doubled it under. The noise the party made, and the mad way they tore along, made several persons rush out of their houses thinking there was another fire in the district. In town reckless riding is prohibited. Is there no law for the country ?—I am, &c, Decorum.
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Colonist, Volume XVI, Issue 1735, 28 March 1874, Page 3
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