ATTEMPTED SHOOTING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 48, 28 October 1913, Page 3

ATTEMPTED SHOOTING.

NURSE .MICHGhSON uIW | DANGER. .If 0.0 - ~ a AueJilaud, October 27. An ,attempt... I .made ,on Saturday qighf, to shoot,lvy Nicholson, a mar,ied woman,,'2l years of age, living apart from her husband and employed .as a domestic'at the-Auckland Train'd Nurses’ Institute. Mrs Nicholson dates that she retired about, 11.30. t quarter of an hour later, hearing a mise at the window, she ■ got up and atruck a match, and saav a man, whom she claims to have recognised, at the vindow, and pointed a revolver at icr. Terrified, she dropped the match md scrambled under the bed. A shot ang out and a bullet embedded itself n the wall. The intruder disappeared vhen the woman’s screams brought aelp, but later on ho reappeared and jointed- a revolver through the window ;t the matron. Nurse Wyatt and anither nurse tried to seize, the weapon, 1 mt failed, and the m,an escaped. The lolico are searching for the offender. Arthur Nicholson, when arrested, ad in his possession a large calibre evolver loaded in two chambers and 19 cartridges.