A DEVOTED WIDOW.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3297, 16 August 1911, Page 7

A DEVOTED WIDOW.

HUSBAND’S ASHES LOST. COMEDY OF MIXED BAGS. An American widow who is so devoted to the memory of her late husband that she always carries his ashes with her was revealed by a curious mistake at the Pittsburg station of the Pennsylvania line. Mrs Mary White, of Chicago, who had been spending a holiday with friends at Pittsburg, left her portmanteau at the station cloakroom while she was saying good-bye. At the same time a mechanic named James Robinson, who was going to seek employment at New York, deft a similar valise' containing his tools at the same station. Robinson was the first to call for liis bag, accepted the one handed to him, and started for his twenty-four hours’ journey to New York. Here his quest for work was successful. “But I can’t begin,” said Robinson; “they’ve given me the wrong valise at Pittsburg, and my tools are left behind.” An examination of his luggage disclused the fact that the valise he had brought contained some woman’s wearing apparel and a sealed copper urn, to which was attached a coffin plate engraved, “George Shires White, died 1910.” There was also a. Civil War medal which had belonged to Mr White. At the same time the stationmaster at Chicago was telegraphing throughout the Pennsylvania line: “Wanted, a lady’s valise containing memorial tagged with the name of White; lady very''anxious.” The bags were exchanged as speedily as possible, and Mrs White explained to the Pennsylvania officials that she was never able to bring herself to. inter her husband’s ashes after his cremation. She kept them with her, and it always seemed as if he himself were still her companion.