The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-11-14
Girl, Awakened Sud-
denly, Fires Pistol From
Pullman Berth.
BELIEVED ROBBER
AFTER HER JEWELS
Police Accept Her Story. and
She Is Released From Custody.
Lynchburg Man, Detained as
Witness, Also Permitted
to Go-Victim Was Mrs.
]. Rape Myers.

Philadelphia. Pa, November i3--Mrs.
J. Rape Myers. wife Of the proprietor
Of the Rape Hotel. Greensburg. Pa
was shot by her daughter, Gladys
Elizabeth Myers in mistake for a rob-
Der in a sleeping car on Pennsy!-
yania Railroad train bound for New
York about $50 this morning. She
died a short time later in Trenton.
\. j., hospital. The shooting oc-
Cured when the train was passing
Croyden. Pa. just this side of Bristol,
Pa, near Trenton.
Miss Myers and w r. Cuthbert.
sixty years Of age. Of Lynchours. Va
ere detained ali day by the Trenton
police but were released tonight II
was thought at first that Cuthbcrt was
concerned in SOME way with the shoot
ing as he was found with Miss Myers
at the side o; the wounded woman
few seconds after the sound OF the
shot aroused the other passengers In
the car. and brought the porter and
conductor. Later. Cuthbert explained
that he had been standing on the front
platform Of the car next In the rear
and had run in when he heard the shot.
Then tho police informed him that
they would detain him merely as ma
terial witness. The Trenton police
ray they are convinced the shooting
was an accident, and that Mr.. Cutn-
bert went to the aid of a person whom
he had reason to believe was in dis
tress.
thought Her Q Robber.
Miss Myers. who is about twenty
years old. was on the way to New
York to purchase a trousseau for her
coming wedding to ]. Blair billiard.
OF Salem. Va. a druggist. She nao
a casket Of jewels which she was TAX
ing to New York to have repaired and
matched, and when she heard her
mother re-entering their section, after
Mrs. Myers had gone for a few minutes
TO the dressing room, she took her re-
avolver from under her pillow and
fired. thinking a burglar was after the
gems. She was half awake at the
time
Miss Myers's brother and her fance
are on the way from Salem. and will
arrive in Trenton early Tomorrow
morning. Her father is also en- route
fl ON Greensburg to meet his daughter.
He is accompan MED by an attorney.
Miss Myers made a statement, in which
she said:
II was awakened by my mother who
informed me that she was going to the
wash room. and while she was absent
dozed of to sleep. ! was suddenly
awakened from my sleep by seeing the
curtains parted and some one crawl
ing into the berth. ! always sleep
with a revolver under my pillow. and.
knowing that the porter had seen my
iewelry, 1 pulled out the revolver and
fred. and was Mortified to hear my
mother scream and see her staGger
into the smoker. where I found her.
Then / shouted for some one to
get a doctor and some whtskey. a
gentleman came forward whom /
afterward learned was William Cuth-
bert, Of Lynchburg, Va, and offered
his services
NY mother and I were always on
good terms. and I considered her my
bes, friend. We were on our way
to New York to do some shopping In
anticipation Of my brothers wedding
on Christmas eve. and my own In June
to MT. billiard"
CutAbeTt Hears Shst Fired.
In q statement to the police Mr..
Cuthbert said that his home was In
Lynchburg. and that he had happened
to be travelling In the car behind the
one oCCopASu W AAS' s0SS'S
daughter.
"As the train approached the bridge
across the Delaware River south Of
rrenton," he is reported to have said.
Il went to the front platform OF my
car intending to step or the train for
a few minutes when the train stopped
at Trenton.
Il e,elieve the shooting was entirely
accidental he continued "As the
train passed through the village Of
Croydon. Pa. at $50 o'clock. ! heard
the noise Of shot 1 nthe car ahead
I quickly opened the door and saw
Mrs Myers lying in the aisle in her
nieh.dress. Her daughter was stand
ing beside her shrieking and In great
distress. I shot my mother. get a
DOCTOR she called. She was hystericai.
and We had trouble in getting her
qu!eted-
The porter OF the car. the con-
ducsor and several passengers who had
hurried TO the scope carried Mrs. Ny
ers into q drawing room compartment.
and we stopped the flow Of blood as
bes, We could until Mrs Myers was re-
moved to the ambulance At Trenton.
Miss Myers told me she dreamed
burglar was pulling aside the curtain
Of her berth, and that she reached
under her pillow. got the revolver and
shot her mother. Il seems that Mrs.
Myers was about to enter the berth
at the moment her daughter dreamed
she saw . burglar ia the aisle. Miss
Myers said she was startled and fired
before she was fully awake"
When the train arrived At Trenton
the mother was conveyed In the police
ambulancs 20 50. Francis Hospital,
whers she died about o'clock WITH.
cot having made any stssemsst 0hs
was shos On the bseasG The 6eoGhtor
sccompanseA the mother 60 the hosp1.
tai az Asd also Mr. Culsh0eYt
George r. Spencer. Inspector Of po-
lice for the FennsyIvania RaiIr0o1
ccmpany. and other railroad police 81.
acssis hurried here. and ssser making
Inquiries. Inspector spencer wired The
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