Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1903 — Odd Happenings in Life. [ARTICLE]

Odd Happenings in Life.

While giving evidence at an Inquest on the body of her son, who had been killed by a reaping machine, an English woman named Lower recently declared that she had lost two husbands, both of whom had been run over by a wagon and killed, and that In each case It was the same wagon. A similar coincidence was brought to light at the Inquest of a man named Dean, who was knocked down and killed by a train at Bromley station. The deceased's widow Informed the jury that the unfortunate man was her second husband and that the first was killed by a train at the same ■spot fourteen years before. Again In August. 1894, William Moses, a Wandsworth clerk, left Waterloo station for Davenport. \\ hen the train reached Its destination he was found In a dying eonditlon alone In one of the compartments and a few minutes afterward expired. At the Inquest it was disclosed that Ills father had died suddenly at the same station three years before, and it was tho discovery of the elder Moses’ death certlfleate in the pocket of his son that revealed the latter’s Identity to lhe railway authorities.