The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-01-27
Orlando Reporter starr


The coroner's jury, composed of A.
C. Hart, foreman; R. B. Brossier, sec,
rotary; L. H. Furen, o. B. Miller, P.
Kassum and E. p Eagerton, brought
in a verdict of murder few moments
after noon Saturday, having convened
at 10 O'Clock.
DR.. ]. s. McEwan, who attended the
murdered man, and one of the chief
witnesses before the jury, stated that
shortly after II o'clock last night he
told young Darling that he had but a
few minutes to live and that if he
had statement to make he had bet.
ter make it at once. This Is what he
said
Il met my wife last night. We had
talk, walking down the street ]
told her | was going to leave her. AS
| turned away from her she fired two
shots That's all / know" T"
AT exactly 5 minutes past u o'clock
this afternoon, while the jury was still
celebrating upon the verdict, Mrs.
Darling was transferred from the city
to the county Jail, across Oak street.
Following her were five women,
her friends and neighbors, She was
escorted by Sheriff Gordon She
showed but few signs of the high
emotional stresses which she had un.
dergone during last night and this
morning. She was bareheaded, and
wore black and white skirt, a pink
silk shirtwaist, and carried green
handbag.
AS she entered the Jail, her WON.
ans instinct prompted her to put her
hand to her huge coil of jet black
hair, and arrange it.
Friends are planning to arrange
her cell in the jail comfortably, with
rug and "details appertaining to her
welfare.
Shooting Occurred Last Night at
O'clock.
The shooting of Lloyd E. Darling,
known through the town as Jack, by
his wife, Mrs Margaret s. Darling,
at 5 o'clock last night, was the first
crime Of this character ever commit
ted in Orlando, according to the au.
thorities discussing the case this
morning. pig91f 4+,
Mrs. Darling spent a wild and hys-
tefical night and for the most part a
frenzied day in her little coop Of a
cell in the city pen, called by courtesy
q jail, behind the city hall Every
neighbor on Lakeview avenue paid
her visit in the course of the morn
ing, all of them in discussing the cir
cumstances, revealing as the motive
behind the shooting, neglect and i'll.
treatment, love and jealousy.
Early this morning DIR. Sylvan Nc.
Elroy paid the stricken woman a Wis.
it. and his admonitions Gained her
considerably. Later, friends sought
Judge Cheney and requesed him to
take charge of the case as her attorn-
ey. At 10 O'Clock the coroner's jury
met for the formal inquest.
Meantime the body of the shot
youth lay in Hapd's undertaking par
Tors, having been removed from the
Orange General Hospital where he
died near midnight last night, with
bullet through his lungs.
A Story Of Neglect.
The story of the shooting reveals
motive which always in some form
is behind crime of this nature Mrs.
Darling all unwittingly sobbed it out
in hysteria to her friends, as they
crowded around her prison door.
"Oh, / loved him." she sobbed.
why, oh why, did his people treat
me So
Behind that last sentence are a
group of facts as sorrowful and heart.
rending almost as the shooting itself
Jack Darling was the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Hiram Darling, whose win
ter home here is at 500 North Magno-
liza avenue, but who live north at
Gloversyille, New York. The senior
Darling is a wealthy man, and this