GIRL TYPIST KILLER
MAN SHOT IN STREET
REVENGE FOR STABBING
DALLAS. Texas. Dec. 1
Corinne Maddox, a Dallas typist, pretty, aged 24. blonde, and tempestuous, sobbed out to policemen to-day the story of why she “had to kill” Brooks Coffman, a lawyer, in the street.
Brooks was her “man," and they quarrelled. At the end of a stormy scene on a country roadside he stabbed her, left her in a ditch, and drove away.
Somehow she got back home, but as soon as her wound had healed she set out to track Brooks down with a ,32-calibre gun in a holster slung from her shoulder under her coat.
After weeks of seeking she found him in a Dallas street and drew her gun.
Seeing the look in her eye, the man appealed to her, begged her for mercy.
Corinne took calm aim, then riddled the pleading man with bullets.
“It’s awful to have to do such a thing,” she sobbed through her tears to the police to-day.' “We’d been following each other for weeks.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20152, 23 January 1940, Page 5
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