The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-12-07
ROMANCE BROKEN, MtNDED,
/ ENDS WHEN TRAIN CRUSHES
OUT YOUNG WOMAN'S LIFE
Victim of Accident on Michigan
Central Tracks Just Reunited
With Husband.
FINDS BODY IN MORGUE
Ernest Tebo Covers Dead Wife's
Face with Kisses as He Sobs
Out Story.
FINDS BODY IN MoRGUE

One OF those tragic romances Of
real life, stranger than any fiction
: story, was barred in the gloomy coun
" morgue, Wednesday morning, when
Ernest Tebo. Of No. 554 Lincoln-aye.
hent over the body Of the beautiful
young woman killed by a Michigan
Central passenger train, between
Holden and Lincoln-ayes., Tuesday
afternoon, and covered the dead face
with kisses. -
Estranged. six years ago, after a
sear OF welded life, reunited by the
etrangest prank of fate imaginaole'
only a month ago, and starting life
over again. In a coy Housekeeping
apartment, week ago, only to have
the romance ended by the tragedy OF
the grade crossing-this was the
story that Ernest Tebo uholded.
Tebo who Is employed in a yard OF
the Card Lumber Co, at Greenwood
and Holden-aves., returned from his
work. Tuesday evening, and heard OF
the fatal accident, but he was toid
that II was a young girl VINO was
killed, the fresh, clear complexion OF
the dead woman, and her dlminutive
Sire, giving rise to that story. he
never dreamed that 1t was his WIRE
whose death he was being told about
Put when she failed TO return during
the night, and the morning came WITH
out her. he was seized with SICK
ening suspicion, and hurried to the
coroner's ONCE. He glanced at her
handbag containing various small
articles Of jewelry. and her purse, and
immediately remarked, In almost
whfsner aTt Is hers" Then he asked
70 see the body, to make sure OF the
identification,
As Clerk AIlmand drew the poor
crushed form forth from It's resting
Mace In the morgue. Tebo fell heav-
NV asainst the wall. and sobbed
aiord' Then he bent over the BODY,
md with tears streaming down his
face held the dead face Of his wife In
hoth hands, and covered 1t with
kisses. This is the story that ne
sobbed out: ~
Il was drink. and quarrel, which
separafed the couple In 1906, AFTER
wear OF married life. The VIE re-
turned to her old home In Jersey CITY
and became a professional nurse
while Tebo, who Is now 80 years oio,
seven years the senior OF his pretty
wife. drifted TO Chicago, and worked
ON a dredge for the Great Lakes
Dredging Co. $tsfN.ssss :,
Sept. /, he returned to DctFpit, and
while he was thinking often Of his
wife. she had the same dream OF an
ultimate reunion. She came to De-
froit. little later, to search for Tebo,
and obtained temporary employment
as cook in the Hennessy boarding
house, at Third and Holden-aves.
Tebo. working in the lumber yard
nearby. boafded at that place. He
commented on a dainty bit OF cook
ing and was told that there was a
new cook 80
.Pretty. too. and a fine young wo-
man. said one of the boarders.
Tebo hurried to the kitchen to see
the new cook, and there was a
tableau as clever as any arranged In
fiction or playlet.
But the wife was hesitant, remem-
bering the cruel end of the first honey
moon. She was courted all over
again. She found her husband anxious
and able to start anew on honey
moon. and just a week ago they tool
ND housekeeping partments in the
home OF Mrs. Warden, No. 554 Lin
coln-ave.
Tebo does not go home to lunch
and the last he saw OF his wife. alive
was Tuesday morning, when she bad'
him an affectionate goodbye.
Then came the heart-rending scene
In the grim county morgue.
Their romance was ended forever