NURSE SHOT.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18013, 4 March 1924, Page 7

NURSE SHOT.

ASSAILANT KILLS HIMSELF. (BT CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION COPTRIQHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) BRISBANE, March 3. While Nurse Elsie Newton, with William Gray, was on the way to church at Maryborough last evening, they noticed that they were followed by a man, Henry Fahl, who plater addressed Nurse Newton, telling her that he desired a few words with her.

Gray stepped aside and then, without warning, Fahl drew a revolver and fired two shots, one striking Nurso JNewton in the right eye and the other knocking out three of her teeth. She fell, and Fahl then fired three shots at his own forehead, only causing slight injuries. With blood streaming from his face. Foil lay alongside the girl and said: ''l love you. I have done for myself." Gray rushed to the girl's assistance and conveyed her to the hospital. Fahl meanwhile escaped. The police followed him to his boardinghouse and foiuid him before a wardrobe, cutting his throat. He was rushed and knocked down, but died in a few minutes. Miss Neyton is expected to recover, but the sight of one eyo is permanently destroyed.

A letter found in Fahl's pocket addressed "To whom it may concern," gave the motive for his action and stated that he w«s perfectly sane. Fahl was a married man with three children.