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She Was Headed For "shecargo."

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
December
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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Says the Jackson citiznn : "On Saturday as tbc extra emigrant train was pro oeeding westward between Hattle Creek aud Bedford, it was forced to stop and give the right of' way to regular train.s, and a i ennan woiuan got off, and was Ici't. The conductor immediately notiürd the central office here that nlie was iuÍssídu, and Bcdford, the ncarest place west ('rom which she lef't the train, was telegrtphed, but no tidiagscuuld be obtained ef her tbere. Then Battlo Creek was called aod no one had 8ecn anything of bar tliere. As a last re rt, not willink to l.'avc the pasnengcr to lior Cate, Augusta, the next station west of Itcdfurd, was called, and just in time, lor a wuuian had been een makiag rajiid stridos ,o the westward on the track just bcforc the dispatch wa9 received. A man was lent after her immediately, wlio, after a hard chase, suceceded in overtaking her about threc quarters of a mile west of tlu; station. She was very unwilling to go back, saying she was going to, 'slipiel auf dem coaches to Sbecargo gefeit,' but on its being cxplaincil to her that she should be sent forward on the expres and get to Chicago before her train, she went back to the station and was duly forwirded. She had walked froui I miles cast of Bedford to i of a mile went of Augusta - a distance of si'x miles in onr lumr and Jiftern minUiet. It wouldn't have bceo saté to bet two to one that she had not caught that train before it arrived in Chicago."

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News