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Timaru Herald, Volume LII, Issue 5166, 12 June 1891, Page 4

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMARU HERALD. Sia, —I a.'a anxious through the coluqinsof your journal to explain sorao matters m can nection with the late fat >i accident at tbe Arowbeaua bridge whereby my daughter, Annie Crawford, lost her life. The details of the accident were du'y chronicled by you but an impression was Ic't that the fatal drive was arranged for by my daughter. This I most respectfully ask vm to allow me to deny. It was Mrs Masgo with whom my daughter was staying, that arranged the fatal excursion, and who at the lust minute backed out ftom the drive aud sent Mi's Matun, her step-daughter, instead m the buggy and pressed my daughter to go. My daughter only consented on the uuderstanding that Mrs Mason was going with her (but this consent was against my 'laughter's wish as Bh'o was nor, willing to go when fir-t spoken to on tho mutter, and was beard to express herself so), and when I tell you that my daughter was au invalid and I especially enjoined Mrs Mason not to allow her to go away from her care you can «a»ily imagine what a *hock it was to me to learn that she had been smt out driving with inexperienced men and a> nurse from the stables, and with out a person of mature year* to guard her. It has been represented, I believe, persistently, that my daughter was engaged to Mr Saggs, the driver of tbe buggy ; this statement if utterly false. I trust, Sir, that you will give publicity to this for me and oblige Yours, Ac, Mbb A. Cbawpobd, Lyttelton.