Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1888 — Trying Experience for a Wife. [ARTICLE]

Trying Experience for a Wife.

Robert 8. Tarver, a prominent Texts lawyer, left Monterey, Mex., recently with his wife to return home,. He was in the last jj stage ,ol and when the trainhaffpassed Lampasas the doctor who accompanied him discovered that he was dead. The doctor imparted the sad news to Mrs. Traver, who sat in the next seat behind him, but told her that if it was discovered the body would be stopped in Mexico and SSOO export duty demanded before it could be taken into Texas. Her fortitude for th? nt xt three hours, which it took the train to cress into the United States, was very great. Daring all that time no sigh or sob escaped her* and the dead body of her husband came safely to this side without even the conductor nr a pwwnger being rwarethatthere was a corpse on the train.