MADMAN IN HOSPITAL.
AMOK WITH REVOLVER.
ONE NURSE SHOT DEAD.
RETURNED SOLDIER'S CRIME By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyrish 4 . (Received 4.50 p.m.) A. and N.Z. SYDNEY. Dec. 17. Richard Sindell, a returned soldipr on leave from Gallon Park visited Kenmore Mental Hospital at (Joulbnrn, where he was previously an inmate, and shot dead Nurse Naughton. He fired nt other nurses, wounding one in the arin I)r. Moffitt-, the superintendent, and Dr. Sampson came on the, scene, and Sindell then fired several shots at them but missed. He next turned the weapon on Mr. Ranken, manager, but it misfired, and Ranken secured the gun and fired, slightly wounding Sindell in the head. Sindell thereupon surrendered.
He told the police that he intended to shoot Dr. Moffitt because he detained him in hospital when ho was sane. He shot the. nurses because he meant to shoot anyone employed in the hospital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18276, 18 December 1922, Page 7
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