"I SHIELDED IT."
A SHOCKING TRAGEDY.
RAILWAY CROSSING FATALITY M _ ~ A MOTHER'S DEVOTION. HER HUSBAND DECAPITATED. Bp Cable. —Prtst Association.—Copyright. (Received Jtfarch 30, 9.50 a.in.) HOBART, March 30. A man named Albert Bailey, a\ carrier, with his wife and child, aged tyro years and a half, were crossing the line near the North Bridgewater Station, when a train crashed into their vehicle.
Bailey was decapitated and his terribly mangled . ,
His wife was thrown among the wreckage,"but with a mother's devotion : clung to her child..
When picked up she said: "I shielded it." ' ' .. \
The wife had several ribs broken, but the child escaped unhurt.
Tlie horses were cut to pieces, ami the vehicle was carried 150 yards.'
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 45, 30 March 1914, Page 7
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