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Show 1 Ul w fa H 3 Btl 9 1 K Ul It 1 St 1 1 jL k i Fires Fatal Shot on Train at Supposed Robber Trenton, N. J.. Nov 13. Miss Myers My-ers and Cuthbert were held today for the Philadelphia officers, as the j shooting took placo In Pennsylvania. Cuthbert made the following slate-I slate-I ruent of the affair to Captain of Po- lice Culliton- I "Just before we arrived at Bristol! I i heard u woman scream. I asked I the porter the cause for the scream and he Informed me that some on? was sick, but the continued screaming scream-ing impelled me to go into the smok- . er, wheie i found a youn? lady crying cry-ing for some one to bring a doctor, adding that she had shot her nioth-cr nioth-cr The girl was a total stranger lo me, but of course I offered my services. ser-vices. There were a couple of porters por-ters there before I arrived The woman wo-man was lying with her head In her daughter's lap The daughter told me that the porter took the revolver from her after the shooting " Talks With Reporters. In a talk with newspaper reporters Mr Cuthbert, who Is apparently a little lit-tle under 60 years of age, said the mother was unconstiots and though i uuahlc to do anything more than mutter, mut-ter, understood all that was being said, and gave a nodding assent when ( tho daughter pleaded for forgiveness i I Philadelphia. Nov 13. Mrs. Eliza- i heth Meyers of New York was shot i and killed by her daughter on a Penn- i sylvania railroad train near here to-1 1 day The cirl says, she Bhot her moth-! er In mistake lor u robber. j; They weie on their wnv from Sa- 1 lem, Va.. to New York. The girl, ; Gladys, and a passenger. v. H. Cutli- t bert of Ljnchburg, Va., were detained. The shooting occurred near Bristol, i I Pa., and the train continued Its jour j ney to Trenton, where tho Injure I I woman wm hurried to a hospital, ' where she died f j Miss Myer3 was so hysterical over I the affair that she could scarcely toll I a connected story. I An clement of mystery was injected inject-ed into tho tragedy because of contradictory contra-dictory statements b the girl ami Cuthbert Cuthbert said he did not know the mother and daughter and onlv volunteered his services to them after tho shooting. Miss Myers is l said to have told the Trenton police ! that Cuthbert was traveling with be:'-.sclf be:'-.sclf and mother. According to the Trenton police Miss .Myers said lhat while lying in her berth she had hoard a noise as if sonic was climbing into her berth. Believing Be-lieving she '"! in danger from an Intruder, In-truder, she fired. Her mother, who was re-turning from the women's retiring re-tiring room, received the bullet. Additions to her story were made later l Miss Myers. Mrs. Myers, she said, was tho wife of J. Rap'po Myers, proprietor of a hotel in Gicensburg. Pa. Mother and datigh- i ter wero on tho way to New York, where tho daughter was to purchase a, wedding trousseau, as she was tol, be married luJuue to J. Blair Dillard, of Salem. Va., where a son of Mrs. Myers lives. Mrs. Myers and the daughter had I been visiting the younger Myers at ! I Salem for some time and recently re- j j turned home to 'Greensburg and start- ed yesterday from Pittsburgh for New-York. New-York. In Pittsburgh they bought a police revolver. |