Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1906 — DIES FROM PENANCE. [ARTICLE]

DIES FROM PENANCE.

GIRL PUTS ARM IN FIRE AS AN ATONEMENT. • i . Her Dress Become*? I Rolled Is Making Espial lon tor Accidental Injury to Child —< nplnln Taggart Given Custody of Sou>. Rose IT. Elnier. aged 17,. an inmate of-, the Bethany home,an -Episcopal <>rphon,age in Glendale, near Cincinnati, from burns receiv/d while cauteriziniiTier arm in a self-imposed ..penance. during which she accidentally set fire to her clothing. Tjio coroner is nicest igating the case. The girt desired tn b<-vo:n<- :< inirse. Lillian Fears, a 3-ycar-old impale of the __home, was suffering from a small cut on the arm, and Miss-Elmer -attempted la readjust the bandages. In doing so she knocked over a ESEfle of boiling w*tor That scalded the chiitfsarm badly. Remorse for the accident caused Miss Eimer much suffering. It is believed that sho gained the ide* she could atone for the accident by burning lii'twlf on the arm. She was seen by ether children holding her bare arm over a grate fire so that the flames touched the bam flesh.- Site had been sobbing and.beuMWiuig-lhe .t»wuL‘ii‘t to the child a moment before. Before anyone could interfere her clothing caught fire and she was soon enveloped in flames. •She never rallied from the. shock.