Lowbridge Gazette corrections and clarifications, 18 October 1912
In Wednesday's account of the Lowbridge Junction disturbance, this paper printed that the station bell sounded at eight o'clock precisely. We are asked by the railway office to clarify that the telegraph time mark was entered before that hour, and that the public clock had lately been under adjustment.
Several witnesses have since amended their statements by reference to the station dial, the hotel wake-call slate, or the bell heard from the platform. These amendments do not agree with one another. Mrs. Hargreaves maintains she heard a bell after the telegraph clerk had already left the window. The night porter at the Imperial writes that his eight o'clock calls were made from the public bell, not from any railway instrument.
A further note from M. Orr, platform porter, says only that the bell he reported was the bell heard by passengers on the down platform. He did not see the telegraph mark and cannot speak to the railway signal itself.
The Gazette therefore withdraws the phrase "the official eight o'clock signal" and substitutes "the bell generally taken for eight o'clock." No allegation is made here as to how the difference arose.