however
to have escaped - In the urgent
position
of affairs could you manage to
return
to Beechworth with your trackers
by
the early train tomorrow or by a special
train
if that can be arranged.
If you can oblige us in this way
could
you manage to come in at once
to
see me at the Club by the Handsome
which
I send out with this
Yrs faithfully
Cap F.C.Standish.
Below is what
Melbourne Punch thought of Hare's idea to strap a man to the train as a
lookout.
Melbourne
Punch July 6 1880.
I must compliment Superintendent
Hare on his originality.
That idea of turning a policeman into a buffer is one of the grandest I
have ever heard of. There was obstruction
feared—there might be logs, rocks, or
perhaps a wagon filled with stones put on the line—and it was
necessary to have a look-out man who would keep his eyes open. The
police, according to all accounts, have not been keeping
their eyes as wide open as they might have done, and hence the value of
Mr.Hare’s suggestion. That look-out man would not have wunk so long as
he remained at his post. He would have looked
very far ahead indeed through the bright moonlight, and it makes
one’s blood curdle to think of the wild and agonized yell with which
he would have made known to his superiors the fact of obstruction on the
line. The idea is a taking one, and deserving of the artist’s
treatment. The modern Mazeppa, 184B, bound hand and foot in front of an
engine tearing along at the rate of fifty miles an hour through an
enemy’s country, is very picturesque. The policeman that I would have
liked to see turned into a buffer would have been Captain Standish. I
venture to say that for once, at least, that gallant officer would have
kept his eyes wide open.
The
letter you see below, is from Captain Standish in relation to getting the
trackers back. 
Melbourne Club
27 June 80
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