Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1916 — Broolston Girl Who Was Stabbed, Will Recover. [ARTICLE]

Broolston Girl Who Was Stabbed, Will Recover.

Miss Beatrice Compton, of Brookston, the trained nurse who, was viciously attacked by Hobart Davis, a ejalous suitor, at the Indiana Soldiers’ home at Lafayette Monday night, is putting up a brave fight for her life and is battling against odds in the" shape of seventeen knife wounds in various parts of her body. Swathed in many bandages, and despite her many dangerous wounds, the plucky jnurse remains hopeful and cheerful and to those attending her she -related the story of her thrilling experience. “To begin with,” she said, “I am mighty thankful and happy to think 1 am here. If it had not been for those brave men and Miss Bilderbeck who risked their lives to save mine, I don’t believe I would have been here to thank them. Something came over me, and when Davis was stabbing me with tjie knife I did not fear him. I thought I could talk him out of it. I was terribly excited, but I believe I remember everything. “I chnnot understand the actions of Davis. Never have I heard of a man acting like he did. He would hold me with one hand and then stab me in the breast with the other. When the blood would spurt from the newly made wound, he would say, 'Ah, there it is.’ Then he would stick the knife in his owh breast. Time after time he did this, many times sticking me with the knife twice in succession.”