The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-13
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Young Woman Says She Mis-
took Mother for Burglar.
Fired From Her Berth in q
Pullman Sleeper.

Philadelphia, Nov. 13-Mrs. Elizabeth
Meyer of New York was shot and killed
by her daughter on a pennsylvania , Ial-
she shot her mother in mistake ior ROD
Der. They were on their way from Sa-
lem Va to New York The girl, Gladys.
and passenger w H. Cuthbert of
T.vnchblIrg Va were detained Tne
shooting occurred near Bristol, Pa, and
the train continued its journey to Trenton,
VIXEN the injured woman was hurried to
hospital, where she died
Miss Myers was so hysterical over
the affair that she could scarcely tell
a connected story. An element of mys-
terry was injected into the tragedy be-
cause of contradictory statements by
Cuthbert and the girl. Cuthbert says
he did not know the mother and
daughter and only volunteered MS
services to them after the shooting.
Miss Myers is said to have told the
Trenton police that Cuthbert was traV-
cling with herself and mother.
According to the Trenton police Miss
Myers said that while lying in her
berth she had heard a noise as If
someone was climbing into her berth.
Believing she was in danger from an
intruder, she fired. Her mother, who
was returning from the women's retir-
ing room, received the bullet
No person was permitted to see Miss
Myers or Cuthbert but it was learned
that Miss Myers had told the hospitar
authorities that the porter on tHs
sleeper car had taken the revolver
from her.
Cuthbert's Story.
Cuthbert said that his home was in
Lynchburg and that he had happened
to be travelling in the car behind that
occupied by Mrs. Myers and her daugh-
ter AS the train approached the
bridge across the Delaware river soUtn
of Trenton, he is reported to have said.
Il went to the front platform of my
car, intending to step off the train for
a few minutes when the train stopped
at Trenton.
Il believe the shooting was entirely
accidental he continued.
LAS the train passed through Croy-
den, 1 heard the noise of a shot in the
car ahead. 1 quickly opened the door
and saw Mrs. Myers lying in the aisle
in her night dress. Her daughter was
standing beside her shrieking and in
great distress. I shot my mother; get
a doctor. she called She was hyS-
tericaI and We had trouble in getting
her quieted. The porter of the car.
the conductor and several passengers
who had hurried to tine scene carried
Mrs. Myers into a drawing room COM
partment and we stopped the flow of
blood as best we could until Mrs. My
ers was removed to the ambulance at
Trenton.
Miss Myers told me she dreamed
that a burglar was pulling aside the
curtain of her berth and that she
reached under her pillow, got the re-
volver and shot her mother. 1t seems
that Mrs. Myers was about to enter
the berth at the moment her daugh-
ter dreamed she saw a burglar in the
aisle. Miss Myers said she W star
tied and fired before she was fully
awake
Additions to her story were made Ia
ter by Miss Myers. Mrs. Myers, she
said, was the wife of ]. Rappe Myers,
proprietor of a hotel in Greensburg,
Pa.
Mother and daughter We're on the
way to New York where the daughter
was to purchase a wedding trousseau
as she was to be married in June to
]. Blair billiard of Salem, Va, where
a son of Mrs Myers lives. Mrs. Myers
and the daughter had been visiting
the younger Myers at Salem for some
time and recently returned home TO
Greensburg, and started yesterday FROM
PittsbUrg for New York. In Pfttsburg
they bought a police revolver.