The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-01-26
MRS. JAMES GLENN'S
SAD DISCOVERY
Found the Mangled Remains OF Her
Husband at an Undertakers.
SMILING WHEN SHE ENTERED
Could Not Believe That Her Husband
Had Been Killed hut as lie Was
Absent from Home She Thought
She Would Look at the Body--she
Completely Broke Down--Remains
Were Taken to GIenn's Lote Homo
on Bennett Street.

A young woman, blue eyes that
sparkled, a fine round face that wore
a merry smile, trim figure dressed in
a warm blue dress, a natty hat over
beautiful light hair, the hat, like the
Dress decorated with the flakes of yes
terday's snowfall, entered the office of
Raub, the undertaker, on Spruce street,
and lightly asked:
Can l see the man who was killed
on the railroad last night?" she said
with a smile. "I just want to see him,
yoL know" she continued, as Under
taker Raub was leading the way to the
back room, where the corpse lay.
"Some one missing?" suggested the
undertaken, preparing to uncover the
mangled form. NO" said the young
woman, tossing her head prettiy;
"only My Cod"
That was the way Mrs. James Glenn,
of 1918 Bennett street, North Scranton,
learned that her husband, the father
of their six-months-old child, was dead,
a victim of the terrible iron horse.
Yes" said Undertaken Raub to a
Tribune reporter; "she never suspected
that it was him. She saw something
in the morning papers about a man
being killed and the description was
quite like that of her husband, who
didn't return home Monday night, so
she thought she'd come here and feel
sure that it was not him. See, she
never realized that death could come
to him on the tracks. He was big,
lusty fellow; he only left home Mon
| day morning, and he was a railroader.
She was light-hearted enough when
she came in through the door, but when
| h. 4. II, \
| She screamed and cried as if her heart
| would break. 1t was q lesson for me;
I'll never let another woman identify
a body-but, then, she looked so bright
and happy; one couldn't suspect what
was really going to happen"
REMAINS TAKEN TO THE HOME
Mrs. Glenn, the widow, left the office
sobbing and went and informed friends
| of the death of her husband, but she
| did not return to the undertakers.
The body was removed last evening
| to the late home on Bennett street
| Glenn was a brakeman on the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western. His
| father, John Glenn, is a section boss
| for the same company. He was q
years of age, and had been married less
| than two years.
The young married man left his home
early Monday morning. He kissed the
| baby goodbye, as he always did, bu
| didn't say where he was going. Thai
was the last seen of him alive by his
| friends.
| The police and others acquainted
| with the facts of the death though
there might have been foul play. The
engineer of the passenger train reach
| ing here from New York at 1905, which
train it is supposed struck Glenn, state.
| that he felt no jar or any other sign o
an obstruction on the track at thi
| point-in the rear of the Phoenix en-
gine house on upper Lackawanna ave
nue. The fact, also, that Glenn's heaC
was the only part of his body outward
ly injured made Chief Robling thinl
a thorough investigation justifiable.
NOT FOUL PLAY.
But nothing has developed to indi
cate foul play. Coroner S. p. Long
street in his inspection of the body yes
terday found that the head wa
crushed sufficiently to cause instan
death. The mans clothing was torn
showing that he was dragged some dis
tance. Glenn had an overcoat whel
he left home. but this was not witt
him when he met death. Where it II
will probably appear later.
The name and address, "Annie Bar
rett, Hillside avenue, Kingston" foun,
on a slip of paper in Glenn's pocket, i
a mystery. The police communicate
with the Kingston authorities yester
day, but no response was received.
Notice of the arrangements 70
Glenn's funeral will be made later.