NURSE SHOT DEAD.
HOSPITAL DOCTORS FIRED AT. EX-PATIENT SEEKS REVENGE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Dec. 17, 5.5 p.m. Sydney, Dec. 17. Richard Sindell, a returned soldier on leave from the Callan Park Asylum, visited Kenmore Mental Hospital at Goulburn, where he was previously an inmate, and shot dead Nurse Naughton. He fired at other nurses, wounding one in the arm. Dr. Moffitt (the superintendent) and Dr. Sampson then came on the scene, and Sindell fired several shots, but missed. He turned the weapon on Mr. Ranken (the manager), but it misfired. Mr. Ranken secured the gun and fired, slightly wounding Sindel! in the bead. He thereupon surrendered. Sindell told the police he intended to shoot Dr. Moffitt, because he detained him in the hospital when he was sane. He shot the nurses because he meant to shoot anyone employed in the hospital.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1922, Page 5
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142NURSE SHOT DEAD. Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1922, Page 5
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