Morning journal and courier., 1891-04-09
HORRIBLE HUMILIATION.

Cars Near the East Haven Quarr1es
 Her Husband Escapes by Fall
 An Interesting Pair-Rovers For
 Twenty-Five Years-Their Devotion
 to Each other.
 A most shocking affair happened about half-past five o'clock yesterday afternoon near the East Haven quarries. William Fl. Dean and his wife Margaret were walk inp on the railroad track on their way to Branford when the east-bound train which leaves this city at S:15 came along and was almost upon them before they were aware
 of it's presence. They were at this time on
 or near the bridge, underneath which g driving road runs up to the qusrries. Dean was the first to see the train and he made frantic efforts to rescue his wife, he
 being more to one side of the track, but they were of no avail, for the engine struck her fairly and the entire train passed over her body. He was thrown off from the bridge and fell a distance of about fifteen feet. Mrs. Deans body was mang- led in horrible manner, being almost severed in the middle so that the two parts merely hung together by shreds. The train was under the charge of Conductor L. C.. Beebe and Engineer Camp, who stopped the train, picked up the two bod ies, placed them on stretchers, on which they were carried to the East Haven sta
 on the train coming to this city. Dean was ::G- unconscious for a time, but later cameto, though still l in dazed condition. His wife probably | never knew what struck her, it was all so sudden. x~ Dr. White was summoned and visited | first the scene of the accident, then the East Haven station. He sent word to the hospital for the ambulance, which was in
 waiting for the man when the train came | in at 7:2O, and the wonan's body was
 ta ken in charge by Lewis & Maycock At the hospital it-was found that Dean | had received some injury to his spine and | other bruises due to the fall, but no other doctors thought he would come out
 of it all right, though he is about seven- ty-two years old.
 He was not aware of his wife's fate and kept calling to them to take good care of her. He told them incoherently how the thing happened, that they had not noticed
 the approach of the train and how he pull
 ed his wife away from the track and then he knew no more.
 They were a strange as we'll as familiar couple about these parts of~the country. For the past twenty-five years they have tramped it hack and forth from Hartford to Bridgeport. He sold odds and ends,
 chiefly essences, lead pencils, etc., and she went along with him. Their devotion to one another was remarkable. They have
 both of them appeared many times before police courts for intoxication, sometimes l together and sometimes not, but when the latter happened the other one would be sure to come on some charge or other, ,so as
 not to be separated. They would go to jail l invariably with the same term to serve, and l when that term expired they would start off another tramp. In the summer
 time they would live most of the time out of doors, kindling fire in the woods to
 cook by and pass the night under tree by the roadside
 Mrs. Dean was a little younger than her
 husband. For 8 number of years they have possessed but one good eye between them, and that one by the husband. She
 was nearly blind in both eyes and he en- tirely so in one. Earlier in his life Dean
 was bricklayer.
 chiefly of large box in which were
 their lunch, which consisted of
 loaf of bread, part of another, some
 bologna sausage, teaspoons and fork In
 her pockets was 8 can, evidently contain
 ing lard, which was hattened out, bro-
 ken clay pipe, some tobacco, etc. They
 came yesterday to Milford and spent a
 good share of the day in Fair Haven and
 had started for Branford to cousin
 named Michael Corcoran. The affair hap
 pened in the town of New Haven It is said the engineer did all in his power to
 warn the two from the track, but they paid no heed to the repeated signals.
 A Coming Event in North Haven.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 If the old tyrant Belshazzar could roam
 about North Haven these days he would
 come to the opinion that unusual prepara-
 tions were going on there for attending his historical funeral Since midwinter two large choruses from Mt. Carmel and the former place have been laboriously study ing Butterfeld's 'Belshazzar' and they propose to show the public in Mamorial hall North Haven, on the evenings of April 15 and 16, the wickeness of the old monarch and the sad end that befell him. It has been an undertaking of great mag nitude for two country villages, but the re- suits can be now foreseen and assurance given that nothing approaching it in inter- est was ever attempted in that latitude be- fore. The entire scors will be given with the effects of costume, special scenery, or chestra, etc. The production of the whole is under the patronage of the Veteran Sol diers' association. Neither young nor old should miss seeing this interpretation of one of the greatest dramatic scenes of the