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IN FIVE MINUTES there were a dozen policemen round the cab, holding back the crowd which had gathered, as crowds will gather at any hour of the day or night in London.
Fortunately, a police surgeon had been at Marlborough Street attending to a drunk, and he was on the spot within a few minutes.