The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-05-24
WOMAN ENDS WRETCHED EXISTENCE ON THE RAILROAD
RICH MEN CoNSPRE TO DEFRAUD UNCLE SAM OF LANDS
Box Car Liz" corder Killed on ii.
r Division Of B. 3 o. OPP
posite Gore Farm.
SUICIDE is SUSPECTED
Although the Woman sIay Have
Been in a Drunken Condition.
Acting Coroner Investigates,

While either drunk or In state
Of despair, Mrs. Lizzie Corder, 80, a
woman familiar in police and magis-
trate's courts in this city, laid down
onsa curve of the railroad track on
the M. R. division of the Baltimore
g Ohio railroad between Glen Falls
and Northview, opposite the Gore
farm, and was killed by the morn
ing passenger train from Fairmont
Friday morning. Her body was cut
IN twain and horribly mangled.
Fireman Saw Her.
Fireman Thomas E. Anawalt saw
the PROSTATE body of the woman on
the track about thirty feet ahead of
the engine and yelled to the en-
gtneer who set on the air brakes and
stopped the train but it was too late
to save the woman. The remains
were picked up by the train crew,
placed in the baggage car and
brought to the passenger station OF
the railroad in this city from which
they were taken to the Clifford -os-
born undertaking morgue.
Acting Coroner Investigates.
Magistrate NJ. S. Riley, who Is
acting coroner in the absence OF
Coroner W. P. Camp, was notified
OF the tragedy and he viewed the re-
mains and took testimony of the
Witnesses. He still has the case un-
der investigation.
Fireman Anawalt told the acting
coroner that he first saw the woman
lying across the rails about thirty
feet in front of the engine He
says she was lying
Face Downward
with her head upon her folded arms.
There was no other person in sight.
The engine he was firing on was No.
7S4 which was drawing train No. 2.
He looked at his watch when the
train was stopped and it was S:45
O'Clock
Charles F. Davis. the conductor of
the train, was examined and he said
that after the train ran over the
woman. he helped pick up the re-
mains which we're brought to the
Clarksburg station. He said that
when he started to pick up the re-
mains he saw the heart, which had
been laid bare, and that 1t was still
moving, which indicated that the
woman was not dead when she laid
on the track.
On Track Several Times.
o. w. Painter. of near Glen Falls,
told the acting coroner that Mrs.
Uorder had been seen lyiyng across
the railroad track in that neighbor-
hood several times in the last few
days and was driven on.
The remains have been prepared
for burial at the undertakers but no
arrangements for the funeral and
burial have been made as yet.
Mrs. Corder was the widow OF
Joseph Corder, who died at Pinnic-
,kinnick about year ago, and the
daughter of David Owens and Hattie
weekley, OF West Union. Florence
Weekley, sister. is prisoner in the
county jail waiting the action of the
next grand jury on charges Of as
sembling Tor immoral purposes.
Many Times Arrested.
The dead woman had been ar
rested by the city and county author
tiles many times for drunkenness
and immoral practices. In police
court circles she was known as Box
Car Liz" She was addicted to the
nse of intoxicants and had become
generally depraved and was in des-
titute circumstances. One time she
was arrested with her sister in an
abandoned. coal mine east Of the city
and punished with a jail sentence for
staying in the mine and receiving
men there for immoral purposes
When arrested she was in rags and
ner sister was attired in cast-of
male garments.
While the woman may have beer
intoxicated when she laid down on
the track it is generally believed that
she had become tired OF her wretehed
existence and deliberately committed
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