The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-15


ID little girl came back with her father |
I began questioning her and soon had Il
settled in my 9wn mind that she Id the
cutting herself took her % the station
to leI the chief talk TO her There she
lrsL said that her brother had cut her
sisters throat she said she nd not sec
him do il. as she was IN the chicken pen
part IF thu barn. and could not see
through. When the chief asked her how
he happened to have her fathers razor.
she said that her brother got il himself
The brother part was knocked out
when Mrs. Corneilson ana Miss Ada
Baucfer said that they knew that the
little boy was out IN the yard plying
with rake. They were positive that
he was IN the ward when Nellie ran cur
Of the barn screaming
The next story she told was that in
the barn was = high partition dividing
part OF the barn OF and II one part was
a chicken pen This partition was made
Of ouriap I'd almost anything that would
keep the chickens IL their part Of the
barn Nellie said she vas IN that part
when Laura was cut ard did not know
anything about the circumstances. She
said she did not see her sisters throat
cut or the one who dc Il There is
rather peculiar arrangement IN the
chicken house. that rather hurt this story
mere HC->f-- EAALNA1 liz ---a-rN-At --Jtt,E
is a large board that i used as q gate
and this the little girl would have II
Opea before She could get Out and run 70
the house, as she said she did. When We
went into the barn that door was the
same as II always was and II would have
been RrnpossibIe for her 20 have smut IT,
While was taking the little
girl home after the chief and mayor had
questioned her, she said that she saw
ff-- p. a -,
this was the one who had cut Lsura's
throat. She could not describe him az all
I an sure Nellie C0rneiIsOn cur her SIS
ter's throat but an al a loss 10 know WAY
she did such q thing
Mr.. Corneiis0n was seen al his home
last night but he was in such a condition
Of distress that he declined 70 make any
statement and was not pressed FOR one.
Chief OF Police Frank Burt thinks that
Nellie Corueilson is moral pervert. He
is positive that she cut her sisters
throat.
DR.. Hoffman says that the wound vas
almost precisely the same as that inflicted
on Mrs. DIN Castle at Fl Dorado. He
sad It v-ls q straight wound cut evenly
across the neck
The little hoy. Harve Corneilson. was at
the house last night when an Eagle re-
porter called. He IS too young 70 make
doubtful If he had seen his little sister
throat cut
The little girl. Nellie. after being ex-
an-ined at the police station was taken
hone ard was IN bed sleeping az o'clock.
probably ignorant of her little sisters
death.
Ire family Is naturally very much dis
tressed. The tragedy IL Its life IS an
awful one and they VIII undoubtedly
nave the sympathy OF every family in
Tichita having children
Nellie Coruelison Is the same girl who
ran away from home week ago Satur-
dav and went to Mrs. Ellis In the Hyde
building On East Douglas avenue. This
was not the first time she has run away
from home rs she was missing for sew
era1 DAYS about = year ago. She appar-
emily has not thought OF her parents and
does not mind thcu. but II they 10 tell
her anything she viii do as she pleases.
She went 20 Mrs. Ellis and told her that
she had been living with a family N the
West Side ald that they had moved away
and left her at the house alone and re-
fused to take ner with them. She told
a very pitiable tale and Mrs Ellis kept
her all dav Suudar and Monday evening
notifedthe police. Thelittie girl was taken
to the West Side 10 see If she could ind
the house she lived in. but could not, and
. then she told her rlElL IA ne 70 the on
GERS and Mrs Ellis She gave her name
to Mrs EIis is Iona Beai" and tod a
great many stories Of how she was
abused a. home.
When tho officers talked with her about
running away she said that her father
whipped her and left big welts upon her
back and she could not stand such treat
ment. The officers made an Investigation
auJ found that she had not been whipped
hut very few times by her father and
and then not hard and that she made q
very poor excuse whom she told the Of
fcers that one Her father said ~ the
time she ran away that he had whipped
her q short time before but il was the
last time IS it did not 90 any goot, as
the child seemed to be IS bad after as
before.
The FIRST time she ran away she was
gone several DAYS and TIE entire police
force was working on the case. Is i
appeared that sho bad been kidnapped
but cue day one OF the policemen got
wind of her and hunted her Up and found
that she had simply ran away for the
flIr of The thing and was not at all sorry
that she had caused her parents a great
deal o. worry She did not seem 70 be
given over TO queer actions until a short
+ tine before she ran away the first time.
but II was alleged by her ueigh0ors that
she had been getting strange all the time
I since and nothing on earth can step her.