The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-18
CUT HER THROAT
ACCIDENTALLY
Nellie C0rneIison Tells How
1t Was Done.
WERE SHAVING EACHOTHER
Wanted to Make It More
Realistic.
NELLIE Is NOT INSANE
Is the Opinion Of Or. Hutton
VI no Examined the Child.
WERE SHAVING EACHOTHER
NELLIE is NOT INSANE

Nellie COrnelison yesterday made the
Statement TO her parents that she cut her
sisters throat accidentally. she stated
that she and her sister were playing in
the barn and were shaving each other
with stick, and then they thought it
would be better il they had a real razor
and Nellie went TO the house and took
her fathers razor from cupboard. Near
the point Of this there is "A large nich
she took the razor TO the barn and be-
san 10 shave little Laura. She had
scraped the blade over her sisters face
and then began on her neck, and when
right in the middle Of the little chUds
Throat Laura said: cit tickies." and al
most instantly jerked her head downward
and back and this pressed the sharp
blade into her throat and there il was
when the little girl pulled her head back
and the blood thar gushed from the
wound when Nellie pulled the razor out
scared the girl and she ran out of the
barn and screamed Laura stin stood as
81 dazed and when AIRS. Cornelson and
Miss Ada Baugher reached her she was
stil standing almost in the center of the
barn, with the blood flowing down her
dress from the awful wound ia her throat
When the child was taken to The h0spi-
tai and after the wound had been sown
mp she is said TO have tried 10 tell her
nurses ana mother how il al happened,
but they would not allow the child to
speak for fear the thread would break
that held the windpipe together.
When Nellie was asked why she told so
many tales of how a man, and then
boy and then how the child had cut her
own throat. she said she aid not know
just why. but she just thought of them
and then told them. The girl is still in
the custody of Mrs. Jackson. and no one
except members of the family are al
lowed 20 speak to her. she is kept away
from the other children. as she seemingly
does not ike them Although She was al
ways a great friend eli Laura, she did not
seem to care very much for any other
children; even her brother was not a
friend 10 h4F like her dead sister.
Mrs. C0rncIson is sun ia "a very dan
Eerous condition from the shock. and It
VIII be some time before she VIII be able
TO move around again. and as soon as
possible Nellie viii De sent to Illinois 10
some Of hor relatives there. where she
viii probably stay three or four years.
Or. Hutton yesterday made an exami-
nation Of Nellie Cornelison anu last night
maize the following statement 80 re-
porter Tor the Eagle:
~ hardly know what to think of the
little girl. When j saw her she was
very much excited. She is just now be-
ginning TO realize the awfulness eff cut
ting her little sisters throat. md 1t has
made her very nervous and irritable
she does not want TO see strangers or
talk of the cutting TO anyone. and only
when pressed TO do so viii talk about It
d an I could hardly form an opinion
af her case TN the condition she IS at
present 7 could have made a Ereat deal
better examination day before yesterday.
or in q week or two than az the present
time. She is a giri maturce far beyond
bar years, and is "a very smart child. and
knows great deal more than she IS
given credit for. 7 do not have much
faith in the theory that she is temperate
- insane, bat she might have been at
the time and 7 could not detect it in her
present condition ] think she should be
sent away from the other children. but
punishment could DO no good and she
should be taken 20 some place where the
conditions would be entirely different
from what she is used TO. and whore she
would have the best of care, and if there
is anything that would point to her be-
Iag temporarily insane she could have
proper treatment. ana I think this could
be taken away from her in "a short time
She must have a different style of teach
ms and treatment than she now has and
This can only be gained through taking
her 20 another place and under the care
OF different hands. Her father has prom
lsed 20 send her to Illinois and place her
Ia charge of some relative there. and it
is my opinion that there is nothing bet
ter, 70 bc done. and the quicacr she is
sent away the better il VIII ne Tor herself
aud Tor her parents. She should he taken
away where she VIII never hear her Sis
ter IS name or any reference made 10 her
cutting her sisters threat she knows
she eur Laura 8 throat, and the more she +
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