Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-11-13

was rushed to st. Erancis's Hos
The dead woman was Mrs. Eliza
to have been in New York. She wa
city, and her ticket was purchase
and a passenger on the train name
Is in Lynchburg, were held by the 1
tigation of the circumstances surrou
Miss Myers was so hysterical over
the affair that she could scarcely tell
a connected story. She told the po-
lice that she shot her mother in mis-
take for a robber. and they are In
clined to believe her story, although
an element of mystery has been in
jected into the tragedy because of
contradictory statements by Cuthbert
and Miss Myers Cuthbert says he
did not know the mother and daugh-
ter, and only volunteered his services
to them after the shooting. Miss
Myers is said to have told the Tren-
ton police that Cuthbert was travel
ing companion of herself and mother.
Mother Was Climbing Into Berth.
According to the Trenton police,
Miss Myers said that while lying In
her berth she had heard a noise as II
someone was climbing into her berth.
She believed she was in danger from
an intruder and fired a shot. Her
mother, who was returning from the
women's retiring-room, received the
bullet
The police would not say whether
Mrs. Myers's home was in New York
or Salem, but a railroad employee
said that conversation he had over
heard on the train indicated that she
was on her way to her home In New
York.
No person was permitted to see
Miss Myers or Mr. Cuthbert, but 1t
was learned that Miss Myers had told
the hospital authorities that the por-
ter on the sleeping car had taken the
revolver from her.
In a statement to the police, Mr
Cuthbert said that his home was III
Iynchburg, and that he happened to
be travelling in the car behind that
occupied by Mrs. Myers and her
daughter.
"As the train approached the
bridge across the Delaware river
south of Trenton" he is reported to
have said, at went to the front plat
form of my car intending to step off
the train for a few minutes when the
train stopped at Trenton.
Believes Shooting Accidental
"I believe the shooting was entire
lv accidental" he continued. AS
the train passed through the village
of Croydon, Pa. at $50 o'clock l
heard the noise of a shot in the car
ahead. l quickly opened the door
and saw Mrs Myers lying in the
aisle in her nightdress. Her daugh-
ter was standing beside her Shrek
ing and In great distress. / shot
my mother get a DOCTOR she called.
''She was hysterical, and we had
trouble in getting her quieted.
"The porter of the car, the con-
ductor and several passengers who
had hurried to the scene carried Mrs.
Myers into drawing g-room compart-
ment and stopped the flow of blood
as best we could until Mrs. Myers
was removed to the ambulance at
Trenton. Miss Myers told me she
dreamed 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 daughter
dreamed she saw a burglar in the
aisle. Miss Myers said she was
startled and fired before she was
fully awake
According to Miss Myers, Mrs. My
ers was the wife of j. Rappe Myers,
proprietor of the Rappe Hotel, of
Greensburg. Pa. Mrs. Myers and her
daughter were en- route. to New York,
where the daughter was to purchase
a wedding trousseau. as she was en-
gagged and was to be married in June
to j. Blair Dillard. of Salem, Va,
where j. Rappe Myers. jr.. a son of
Mrs. Myers, lives.
Mrs Myers and the daughter had
been visiting the younger Myers at
salem for some time and recently re-
turned home to Greensburg and start
ed yesterday from Pittspurg for New
York. In Pittsburgh they bought a
police revolver. The daughter states
that her mother arose and went to the
vvomen,s room In the sleeping car at
about o'colck This morning, and that
she. the daughter, knew of the moth
er's arising and subsequently fell
asleep. Later, when the mother re-
turned. the daughter was awakened.
and. not conscious at the moment of
the mothers absence from the berth,
nnistook her for thief. a she opened
the curtains of the berth
When the train arrived at Trenton
the mother was conveyed in the po-
lice ambulance to ST. Franciss Hos
pital where she died at about I
r.clock without regaining conscious
ness and without having made any
scantinued on Second Parel