DOCTOR’S ADVENTURE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9462, 3 June 1909, Page 8

DOCTOR’S ADVENTURE.

A TARGET FOR A LADY PATIENT. a_

A medical man ip practice in a French provincial town has just had a remarkable adventure. Among his numerous patients was a middleaged woman, and when she appeared at his door, which he had opened himelf, as hie servant was out, he stepped politely aside to let her pass in. His amazemsent may be imagined when she pulled out a revover, aimed deliberately at him, and fired a couple of shots. By wonderful good luck, the doctor went through the trying ordeal unscathed, but another of his patients, who was seated in his consulting-room, did not fare so well as his face was cut ‘by some glass, which one of the builets had struck. Bexore the bewildered physician could ask for an explanation of this extraordinary conduct, his assailant turned her weapon against herself, and fell to the floor aSverely wounded. Some of the neighbours, having heard the report of firearms, rushed to the rescue. The woman was carried to a druggist’s shop, and thence to her home, in a very precarious condition. It is thought that she was in a very nervous state, and had a grudge'against the doctor because he had [failed to cure her. That she meant business is proved by the fact that she had .bonght the revolver that very morning, and had asked the gunsmith to load the six chambers carefully. Before proceeding on her expedition to the physician’s house, moreover, she had gone through a little practice, lodging a couple of ballets in the door of her kitchen, and sending a third right through an old saucepan. So .the doctor may consider himself fortunate in having-escaped Without a scratch.