PRIEST WOUNDED NEAR CHURCH
WOMAN FLEES AFTER FIRING SHOT (N.Z. Press Association— Copyright)
P MELBOURNE, August 31. While people were waiting for Mass in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church at St. Kilda to-day, a young woman pulled a sawn-off small calibre rifle irom inside her coat and wounded a priest outside the presbytery. The woman did not speak and fled immediately after firing the snot. The priest was Father Anthony Omasmaier, a Bavarian, aged 37, who belongs to the Palatine Order of Missionaries. He was about to cross the courtyard to celebrate Mass when a woman with a pale, emaciated face appeared. He raised an arm as tne woman fired and was hit in the left elbow. . . „ ~ . The parish priest (Father J. Durkin) said that Father Anthony did not know the woman or why he had been attacked. He had come from Bavaria about 15 years ago but had been in the parish only three months. The police are looking for the Woman.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26515, 1 September 1951, Page 2
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