Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1895 — She Killed a Boy. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

She Killed a Boy.

While public sentiment at the national capital cordially supports the action of tho Grand Jury of the District of Columbia in indicting Miss Elizabeth M. Flagler for shooting and killing Ernest Green, a colored boy, who was stealing pears from the premises of her father, there is a strong current of sympathy for the young lady running through all classes' of society. Ilor whereabouts at present are unknown to all except her family and intimate friends, hut it is believed that she is in Baltimore undergoing a course of treatment for nervous prostration brought on by the tragedy. It is net likely that the case will be brought to trial before January, and there is no necessity for her appearance in court until then. Miss Flagler is the daughter of Gen. D. W. Flagler, U. S. A., chief of the Ordnance Bureau of the War Department. She was born and reared in Rock Island, 111. She is tall, dignified and graeful, and has refined and pleasant features and

soft brown eyes. It is recalled that when the terrible rpsult of her recklessness was brought to her notice she was tho first to run to tho wounded boy's assistance, and she rubbed his hands and applied ice bandages to the bleeding wound. When Informed that the boy was dead she refused to believe the unwelcome truth and continued her efforts to revive him* The following day sho offered SSO, which had been set aside for her summer vacation, to the parunts of tho boy to defray the expenses of tho funeral. Some years ago, while living at Watertown, Mass., she was seized with pneumonia, from the effects of which she never fully recovered, and since which time she has been somewhat of an invalid. One of tho effects of the malady is an instability nnd ungovernable temper when urousOd, and to this is ascribed the unfortunate circuftistanco which will culminate in her trial for manslaughter.

MISS ELIZABETH FLAGLER.