A MOTHERS DEVOTION.
SAVES LIFE OF HER BABY. FATHER. DECAPITATED. HOBART, to-day. Albert Bailey, a carrier, with his wife and child, the latter years of age, was crossing the line near North Bridge water station, when a train crashed into the vehicle. Bailey was decapitated and terribly mangled.' His wife was found among the wreckage. With a mother's devotion she had clung to her child. Site l said: "I shielded it." She had several ribs broken, but the child was unhurt. The horses were cut to pieces, and the vehicle was carried 150 yards.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12756, 31 March 1914, Page 3
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94A MOTHERS DEVOTION. Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12756, 31 March 1914, Page 3
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