25 JUNE 1910, Page 16

[To TEE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR, —A few years

ago a man was killed by lightning in a small but or refuge on the bank of the Isis here, a little below Folly Bridge, the lightning hreaking the window, attracted by a brass button on the man's cap. He was a ferryman, and he and a companion took shelter in the refuge provided for the purpose. The companion was not injured. I took shelter in a shop within a few hundred yards of the spot where it happened, and as soon as the body had been taken away I went to the river bank and examined the but and the broken window. The glass had fallen inwards.—I am, Sir, Att., 13 Warnborough Road, Oxford. K. M. 'LIFER.