The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-14
HALE AWAKENED
BY HER MOTHERS
KISS, GIRL SHOOTS
Mrs. Elizabeth Meyers Killed
By Daughter on Train
Near Trenton
ENGAGED TO MARRY
r. BLAIR DILLARD
Fiancee Of Former Richmond
Man Thought Mother
Was Negro
Porter

TRENTON, N. j., Nov. S.-Mrs.
Elizabeth Myers. wife Of J. Rape
Myers, Of Greensbnrg. Pa. was shot
tkIough the lungs by her daughter
GLADYS Elizabeth Myers, while lean
ing over the girl 10 kiss her. In their
berth In the southern Express o~uhd
fer New Yoik, early this morning.
Mrs. Myers died in st. Francis hos
1tital here, two hours later. inc
shooting took place just this side OF
Croydon, Pa, twenty niles south OF
tilis city.
The Trenton police after three
hcnrs inquisition of the girl and VIII
liam r.. Cuthbert. OF Lynchburg. Va.
who fought his way through a panic
stricken crowd OF men and women to
The side OF the wounded woman and
The eraxed girl. decided that the affair
was an accident. due entirely to the
nervous condition OF Miss Myers. who
told them that she awoke to see
face THOUGH hers and thought that IL
MAS. the Negro porter. s.s3s..es-sz.s,.-e s,s.
Girl Half Craxed-
Both Miss Myers and Cuthhert were
released from the First precinct po-
ncs station@-the former hystericai and
calling her mothers name---shortiy
after i o'clock this evening
Mrs Myers and her daughter were
ga their Way ia Mex York frona ssa~
Tern. Va. where they were on y Visit
TO ]. Rappe Myers. Jr.. the young
woman's brother. and where, only
iast week. she had become engaged
Il, marry r. blair billiard. "A wealthy
lumber merchant of Salem. and Rich
mond They had double mission
10 purchase presents for young Myers.
" he Ia 10 he married. on Chrlstmas.
ard TO begin buying materials Tor
Miss Myers trousseau.
The story, as the girl relates II, ~
that she and her mother had - 500
worth Of tewciry In . channels bag.
likewise they had 81 eaiioer re-
voiver. which Miss Myers insisted
upon carrying while In the South. be
cause of q terror of negroes that she
inherited fruni her mother.
The porter of the sleeper. William
III. Green, was sitting upon camp
stool In a state room not six feet away
from the berth occupied by the two
women. The girl nerrously asked her
mother whether she thought that
Green was watching them. The moth
CIR Gained the girl and told her that
Green would protect rather than
harm them strs. Myers retired about
o'clock. Her daughter followed
about d hais hour later
i, WIS after midnight when Miss
Myers fell asleep. She awake sew
eral times with a start. and her
mother, as watchful as though the
young woman had been a baby uteu
to sooshe The troubled girl by caresses
and whispsrings.
shortly before $40 this morning.
while the girl WAS asleep. Mrs. Myers
Fwns berth anti
went to the Mushroom. Ten minutes
latar she returned. The girl was muir
niuring in her sleep and tossing ner :
: yaasly. The mother leaned over her
before climbing back into the lower
berth, which they occupied Green
heard her nurInur:
My poor darling"
The shooting.
Mrs. Myers stopped slowly and her
Hrs met her daughters. The girl
gwoke With half choked scream
She drew her hand from beneath her
pillow, thrust II forward. She had
slept with The revolver elHtehed IN
her hand
There was sharp report The elder
woman staggered backward. She
reefcd. her head struck the leg oil .
man who was jumping from the ad-
soihius ..a.a..a,,, u,herx
toward the open s'a.ssoom' ca,,r
Green hsa peeN ee ="
some one heip ms me c Mo .
easpsu saansa ~ ,ha nlatform
Green dasnea 20 .ne p ssrora,
shouting Tor .ns eonn u;n..p,.r.r ri.
men and women panse. .',s ~, al,
lowed nun. MIS-. Mseis ~ aun rsa.s
on the s.a'eroom noo. ~ s' ,,n y
stagger and fali Sne rusned 70 ne'
sativ.1 Ind feia - nsr knss e. . 49,,
cally screaming TOT heap. Inc .u ne,
hsa rsTs.s issFs' 'ua'
hung less than an men aooNs ana as..I !,
II imbedded iise,I ~ sne n'As.l go ~
n berth across lne A'sie.
4 the car Immediately behina when tht
snnese IRON miller, and was on his