Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1900 — MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING. [ARTICLE]

MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING.

Bullet In a Nurse's Bead Puts Des Maine* at Guessing;. Des Moines, la., Dec, 13. —Mrs. Jeanette Broadbent, a professional nurse, was found shot in the back of the head at 8:30 p. m. yesterday in her room Iq an apartment house. She may not Recover. Sli# ,'mS been to tell a coherent utory, tut claims t£at a ft) a ft opened her door, shot her, and law away. She cannot describe her aP leg('<l nsjwuia.nt. Her own revolver was found vne tlfiiwsr Witt one chamber discharged, A addressed to a sister gQ<J stamped fop mailing lay on her tqble. Iq It shO said her revolver had been stolen. The shooting has attracted wide attention because Mrs. Broadbent was a witness in the sensational Richardson divorce case now on trial and testified to statements which she alleged Mrs. Richardson made to her with regard to Mrs. Richardson’s relations with a leading professional man.