Show BROUGHT DOWN A BOY MISS PLAQLER OF WASHINGTON KILLS A NEGRO He Was Stealing Pears and She Shot Into the TreeExonerated by tho Coroners Jury Washington D C Aug 21lIss Elizabeth Flugler daughter of General Flagler Chief of Ordnance well known In army und social circles killed a fourteenyearold negro Ernest Green today at her home In the suburbs Flagler had been annoyed greatly by boys throwing at fruit trees Today Miss Flagler discovered Green on the fence stealing fruit and fired at him from a secondstory window Miss Flagler gave herself Into custody Slip Is 28 years old attractive and accomplished accom-plished A coroners jury was Impaneled this afternoon and an Inquest held Miss Flagler was called to the witness stand and made a statement The boys had been scaling the trees and stealing fruit from their yard and one day last week she fired Into the road Some clothes drying on the line wero recently re-cently stolen and as there were so many boys around she presumed that some of them were the thieves This morning she heard the branches of the pear tree rustling She ran to her room and got the revolver from the bureau drawer She continued 1 fired at the one near the road and must have hit the boy The first day I shot at the boys was on Monday and then I called after them and told them the next time I would shoot at them meanIng mean-ing only to frighten them The jury came to the following verdict ver-dict Wo find that the said Ernest Green eame to his death by a bullet fired from a pistol held In the hands of Elizabeth M Flagler but we do not think that she did It with murderous Intent We believe that the shots were fired carelessly and Indifferently but upon the evidence we cannot hold her Miss Flaeler was thereupon released |