The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-01-27
Orlando Has Sensation;
Prominent Woman Shoots.
And Kills Her Husband

4, was his only child. Mr.. Darling, 4
is reputed, spent fortune on the boy
trying to keep him in the ways o.
life in which he was reared. The lac
had been married twice before, the
second union, 1t is reported, costing
the father large sum to have an
nulled.
| He bought him the home the couple
occupied on Lakeview avenue, hand
some little bungalow, erected here
some six years ago by Mr.. Purdy, a
winter visitor from Ohio.
During the years Immediately fol
lowing the removal of young Darline
and his wife to his new home, his
father visited him every day, advising
him about the improvements Of the
place and took deep interest in the
Improvement of the location, and his
sons welfare. But it has been a mat.
ter Of common observation that this
year the senior Darling has never
once been on Lakeview avenue.
And it is reported, and Mrs. Oar.
ling's words bore out the impression,
that the senior Darling family have
not been especially attentive to the
sons wife. This fact, coupled with
the alleged i'll treatment of her by
her husband himself, and jealousy Of
another woman in the case, a certain
Blanche is offered by friends
as the motive for the crime.
PitabIe Scene at Jail.
Never in the history of this town
have the police officials had their
hearts so wrung as by the pitiful
pleadings and hysterical outbursts of
Mrs. Darling, during her as yet brief
incarceration in the city Jail.
This morning when representatives
of this paper visited the jail, some six
or eight women, all neighbors and
friends of the imprisoned woman
were grouped in the corner of the
jail, endeavoring to comfort her. BY
turn she would weep, plead and moan
piteously. The scene was too much
for Chief of Police Pounds, who, when
ne went to the scene to advise the Wis.
itors to leave, and after endeavoring
to quiet the pleading woman, turned
away hastily with tears in his eyes.
The shooting occurred last night at
8 o'clock on Jackson street in front
Of R. L. Hyer's residence. The act
followed days Of high emotional strain
on thespart Of Mrs. Darling. A neigh
Dor on Lakeview avenue told today
of her having come to her home yes.
terday morning at 4:30 weeping, and
saying that she could no longer en-.
dure the strain her husband was
enforcing upon her.
Husband Threatened to Leave Her
Neighbors told of her lonely vigils
in the Lakeview avenue house, or.
tending over weeks. She was fire..
quently found in tears. - ~
She stated that last night she came
down town, after having received
news Of her husbands whereabouts,
and went to the picture show. But
was restless and went on. She met
her husband on the street. and they
had quarrel. Young Darling had
threatened to leave her. She plead
with him.
Finding him adaman in his pur.
pose she shot him. Tho youth was
found On the sidewalk by Patrolman
Eagerton, who removed him temporal.
lily to the porch of the Hyer home.
Later he was carried to the Orange
General Hospital by Carey Hand in
the undertaker's ambulance,
DR.. McEwan was called and deter.
mined at once that the young man
was doomed. He died at 1880
o'clock.
TO THE PUBLIC