The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-12
JENNIE YAILING KILLED
l,y n stray ~Ilulist, Willie Playing Near Her

lly n Stray Iullet, while Playing Near nor
Home, Yesterday Afternoon.
Yesterday afternoon a little after 8
o'clock, while Jennie Yarling, tho
elghsyear.old daughter Of Elias Yarl.
Ing, a c~igarmafer employed at pollack's
factory, was playing with Lotto Bennett
and Clara Wilhelm, girls Of her own
age, in Wheat's old brickyard, at the
east end Of Twelfth street, near their
homes, she was struck In the front OF
the neck, a little 10 the right OF the mid.
die, by a stray bullet, supposed to have
been fired by some boys playing with n
revolver on the other side Of the creek,
and dfed from the effects Of the wound
in twenty minutes.
Tho brick yards ore located down on
the flats only a short distance from the
back door OF Mr.. Yarling's house. and
the little girls In the neighborhood have
made II a play ground for some time
past. Tho three children mentioned
were there yesterday afternoon, and the
farling girl was upon an old brick
moulder's table, throwing wild cotton
Gbres into the air and watching them
sail off In the wind. Suddenly, withou,
warning, she fell back on tho table, ind
throwing up her hands and sendiag d
bevy OF wild cotton Gbres flying through
the nir, cried: "Take me home! TAXI
me to mothcr"
The child's little companions screamed
and ran away, but in a few seconds q
number OF people from the houses neal
by were attracted to the spot aud the
little girl, lying unconscious on the
table, was carried home. She did moi
bleed from the wound at first, but the
crimson fluid Don streamed from bel
mouth, the bullet having cut m artery
and made an opening through 10 thu
throat, letting the blood through tha,
way. She did not become conscious
and died in Is minutes after beinI
taken home. death resulting, 1t was sup
posed, jointly from bleeding and from
the bullet having shattered the spirai
column at the neck.
Dr.. Stifel was cslled in and without
careful investigation pronounced thu
little red hole In the child's neck q gun
shot wound. Several people were fount
who asserted that they had heard a sho'
fred about tho time the child was
killed, and others had seen q party o
small boys playing on the creek banl
on the opposite side.
These things led to an investigation
by the police which resulted in brinpin,
the boys who were over the creek to 20
lice headquarters In the evening. They
are, Albert Young, William Miller, Wi!
liam %Schlosser, John Love and Franl
Glece. Young had an old rattlc.tray
Of a 80 calibre revolver, which had to b
in the hands of an expert to work at all
The five boys had been over the creel
shooting into the air and at a mark
Five shots were fired, by three diGeren
boys, but whether any OF them went il
the direction Of the little girl who wa
killed was not known by any OF them
and they all asserted that they had no
heard Of OF the accident till evening.
They YER taken before Justice Davis
who failed to find any evidence tina
any Of them had committed a crime
and they were all released.
A rumor was current in the East En-,
last night that a weli.known gentleman
living in that section had been over III,
creek shooting with q Winchester riff
that carries 1000 yards, but the rumo
could not be verified.
1t was asserted by some that the chill,
had fallen on a rail and caused the in
jury, but the facts do not seem to bea
out this theory. Coroner Schultze wa
called, but owing to tho absence 0
County Physician Wilson, whose dut,
it is to make the autopsy, the irques
was postponed till this morning, whel
Dr.. Stifel will make an examination Q
the wound. -