MOTHER'S LEAP FROM TRAIN.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1546, 16 September 1912, Page 5

MOTHER'S LEAP FROM TRAIN.

SUPPOSED VAIN EFFORT TO SAVE HER BABY.

Through, it is supposed, the door of a enrriage of an express train flying open, a mother and her eight«eu-months-old baby boy lost, their lives recently on the London and North-Western Railway between Crewe and Fandbaeh, in Cheshire. The tragedy was witnessed by a platelayer working on the line. The door flew open, he states, and tho child fell out. A moment later the mother appeared to leap out, in a desperate hope probably ot saving her child. When picked up the child was deud, and the mother died before she could bo conveyed to Crewo railway hospital. The mother, who was about thirty years of age, had a ticket from Wolverhampton to West Har,tlepool, and was travelling with her two children, the elder bows a girl about lour years of age. There'was another woman'in the same compartment, but she does not appear to have realised what happened until the little girl exclaimed, "Where's mamma f" Then, looking round, she saw that the mother and child had disappeared. The woman and child were identified as Mrs. Annie Jomcs, 24. and her twelvc-mouihs-old child, of 10 Hadwi Street, West Uartlepool. There was another child under three years travelling.with them.

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