Saturday Bee
Sacramento, Cal.
September 9, 1905
Page 6

CLUNG TO DEAD BABY ON TRAIN
Grief-Crazed Mother Feared Conductor Would Take The Child From Her If He
Learned Of Its Death
STOCKTON (San Joaquin Co.), September 9 - With the body of her 18-months-old
baby clasped in her arms as though it were a living child, Mrs. Abraham
COULTER covered the journey from Reno., to Carters, Tuolumne County, keeping
back the tears as best she could, and sharing with no one the fact that her
child had died on the train.
Mrs. coulter feared that if the conductor of the train on which she was
coming west from her old home in Wisconsin should learn of the little one's
death he would take the corpse from her. Accordingly she resolved to tell no
one the facts, and took care of her other two children who were with her,
while holding the tiny corpse.
She arrived at Carters yesterday, where her husband, who had gone there
several months ago from Wisconsin, has a good home for her.