N&W in 1907 -- Passengers

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A beheading was done this week in Canada on a bus.

The more things change the more they are the same.

Pete Heimbach

 

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
November 8, 1907

 

In City and Coal Field

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BLOOD AND THUNDER SCENE ON TRAIN

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    Passengers on train No. 3 Tuesday night were given the opportunity of
witnessing a blood-and-thunder scene which does not go with the purchase of
every ticket.  The principals to the tragedy were Mr. and Mrs. Walter King.
King, it is alleged, had deserted his bride and was on his way from Norfolk
to Columbus to join the regular army.  In some manner, Mrs. King, who was at
Welch, received a tip to this effect, and she boarded the train at Welch.
She soon found her husband asleep in a seat and without the usual
formalities she proceeded to chop her lord and master to pieces.  She was
armed with a butcher knife and the passengers were given a real scare.  King
by sheer force overpowered his wife and held her captive until a little
station the other side of Welch was reached, where she was put off.  King
remained on the train and continued his journey to Columbus.  He is a
railroad man and is quite well known in Norfolk and Western circles.

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[It's a good thing for King that his wife's name wasn't Lorena Bobbitt!]

 

Gordon Hamilton

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