MR. ARNOLD EXPLAINS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1931, 12 March 1875, Page 3

MR. ARNOLD EXPLAINS.

To the Editor of the Evening Star.

Sic, —As you say in your issue of the, 11th that I did not explain about the boy; asking me to go after the yomng man Porter, I will endeavor to do so to the best of my knowledge. I left my house at 6.20, anxious about my boat that Mi Bull's lads were to take away, knowing that if they started they would get blown' off. I have no recollection of the boy; asking me to go after Porter—all my,* thoughts were about my boat. I never saw the boy to my knowledge, till I was; speaking to Mr Bull. We went down; the wharf together to see if the boat was! there.— There was nothing said about the canoe, further than there were two boats gone to bring him in. I remained by my boat until 8.30 to see that she r did not break her moorings. I spoke to ■Mr Partridge, and said how reckless it was to go in such a boat with the wind' off the land. With regard ,to assaulting the boy, I was very sorry for it. I was very much'cut up to think that a rumcyir should get about that I wanted payment to save that young man's life. I should have been happy to have launched all my froats and' gone myself, if I could have been of any use. lam quite prepared to apologise to Mrs McManus for assaulting her son, through the press or otherwise.