Eleven-year-old Catherine Walsh stood at Boston's South Station on March 15, 1922, her hand gripped tightly by forty-three-year-old Thomas Murphy who'd just "married" her that morning and was now taking her on a train to "their new home" in New York—when suddenly a woman in the crowd, Mrs. Rose Sullivan, age fifty-five, had walked directly up to them and said loudly "That child is ELEVEN YEARS OLD. Why is she with you?"—and Thomas had stammered "She's my wife, we just married"—and Mrs. Sullivan had shouted to the crowded station "THIS MAN SAYS HE MARRIED AN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD CHILD! SOMEONE CALL POLICE!"—and within seconds a crowd of women had surrounded Thomas, forming a circle around Catherine, and Mrs. Sullivan had pulled Catherine away from Thomas while other women blocked his path—and station police had arrived to find Thomas surrounded by thirty angry women and Catherine being held protectively by Mrs. Sullivan who'd said "This child is eleven. This man claims he married her this morning. Arrest him"—and police had detained Thomas and called in detectives, and investigation had revealed Catherine's father had sold her for $800, a corrupt justice of the peace had performed the ceremony without verifying age, and Thomas had train tickets to New York where he planned to take Catherine to a building he owned—and Thomas was arrested for child trafficking and attempted rape, Catherine's father for selling a child, and the justice of the peace for fraudulent marriage—and Mrs. Sullivan had personally taken Catherine to a children's shelter and had testified at all three trials, and the story had made newspapers nationwide with headlines reading "Boston Woman Stops Child Bride at Train Station—Thirty Women Form Protective Circle." Catherine lived until 2004, dying at age ninety-three.