Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1912 — SHOT MOTHER IN SLEEPING CAR [ARTICLE]

SHOT MOTHER IN SLEEPING CAR

Young Woman With Casket of Jewels ITook Mother For Burglar On Pennsylvania Train. Miss Gladys Elizabeth Myers shot her mother, Mrs. J. Rappe Myers, of Greensburg, Pa., in a sleeping car on the Pennsylvania railroad early Wednesday morning. Miss Myers is 20 years old. She was on her way to New York to purchase a trousseau for her aproaching marriage to J. Blair Dillard, a druggist of Salem, Va, She had a casket of jewels which she was taking to New York to be repaired. Her mother started to enter her berth in the morning and Miss Myers thought she was a thief and fired. Her mother staggered a few feet away and died. Thinking the story of Miss Myers a lftle “fishy” the police are holding her and a man named Cuthbert, who was found with her at the side of her dying mother.