Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-04-20

The SHOOTING OF MILE. VoLANTE.-
SHOT IN THE FOREHEAD BY WOMAN
WHO HAD BEEN ON THE STAGE FIVE
wExKs.-A dispatch was published in
The Sun on Saturday, from Providence,
r. l., announcing the fatal shooting in
the Pawtucket Opera House, in that
city, on Friday night, of Mile. Volante
by Mrs. Jennie Fowler. The Provl-
dence Press, in an account Of the acci-
dent, says:
"Mrs. Franklin had several times sue
cessfully performed the feat of shooting
an apple from off the head ola person
OH the opposite side Of the stage. To-
wards the end of the performance Mrs
Franklin would stand with her back 10
Mile. Volante and sight the apple On the
latter's head by means of the reflection
from mirror When this shot was
fired on Friday night the bullet struck
Mile. Volante in the centre of the fore
head, at the point where the skin joins
the hair. The injured girl was prompt
ly attended by physicians, but she could
not be relieved, as the wound was IA
tai one. The occurrence caused some
confusion, but the audience retired in a
few moments without much commotion.
Mrs. Franklin was placed under arrest
10y the chief Of police soon after the oc-
currence.
mile. Volante was trapeze perfor-
mer, having gone to Providence from
Brooklyn, n. Y, playing while there at
Mozart Garden. This was the third
night that she had taken the part she
was performing when shot. The person
handling the rifle was Mrs Jennie Fow-
Ter, who goes by the name of Franklin
on the stage. She resides in Brooklyn.
She saws she has shot the rifle for about
three years, but this is her fifth week on
the stage in public, The barrel Of the
rifle was two feet in length, and carried
No. % short bullet, the smallest size
used in a rife She regrets exceeding
ly the accident, and says she will now
forever abandon the stage.
Mile. Volante was OF Irish decent,
and her real name was Lottic Maloy.
She was a native of the town of Phelps,
near Clifton Springs, in New York,
where her mother is still living. She
was twenty-three years old and of good
appearance, with very dark hair, and
fair complexion and light blue eyes. She
had not been public performer for
more than year. Her first engage
ment was at the Olympic Theatre, in
Brooklyn, and afterwards she performed
in several places in New York and in
Brooklyn. Two weeks ago she went
to Fall River, Mass, and since that time
her friends have heard nothing of her
until the news OF ber death was publsh-
ed. A short time before leaving New
York she said TO Mrs. Butler, with
whom she was living, at No. "a First
street, that she wanted "to strike some
thing that would make a sensation"
She is SAID to have been a daring girl in
her profession, that Of traprzist, and
was much liked"
The New York Herald of yesterday
states that on Saturday last sister OF
Mile. Volante, residing in that city, re-
ceived dispatch stating that the an
nouncement of the death of the trape-
xist was premature. She had been found
in a comstose state after the bullet
struck her, from which she had not re-
covered. She lay in the Opera House
throughout the night, receiving the most
tender care from the members OF the
company, and Saturday morning she
was taken to the Pawtucket Hotel Oh a
stretcher Mrs. Franklin, who fired the
shot, was srraigned on Saturday after
noon Oh charge of assault with dan
gerous weapon. She pleaded not gull
ty, and gave $1,000 bonds TO appear for
trial next Tuesday.
Mile. Volante fingered until Sunday
evening and died about o'clock. Her
sister, from Brooklyn, N Y, was pres
ent, aud brother from Ontario county,
\. Y, was expected. Her sister was
the only one of the family who knew
she was on the stage.-Bah. Sun.
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