MARINE STABS PRIEST AT COMMUNION RAIL
Received Alnndny, 7.40 p.m. NEW VOliK, April 20. A fornier .Mnrine, urmeil with 11 small pocketknife, attacked a Jesuit priest as lie was serving commvuiion liefore the altar of tlie Ghufeli of the hr'imaeuIftte Concepf ion at New Oi leatis today. Long lines of worshi'ppers liad iiled to the front to receive the eoniniunion and the Marino knelt before the railing as though to reeeive the liolv water but as the priest, Eatlier Jauies (. ourtney, aged 52, berit over, he leaped upwards thrust the knife into Gie priest'; throat, thon juniped over the railing and again stabbed the pri.est 111 earli side of flie neck and once in the back. Xearby worshippers who were at first stunned by the sitddefmess of tlie attack, tlien ruslted to the aid of the priest and disarnied the Marine. The priest lost a, eonsiderable (|iiantity ot blood but following a two-hou' operalion in the Mercy Ilflspital, doefors said he had a ehanee to survive. The Marine refused to explain his motive. "He is a psvcho])athic ease of some sort, ' ' said tlie police.
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 April 1947, Page 5
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