Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1909 — NURSE SHOT BY PATIENT [ARTICLE]

NURSE SHOT BY PATIENT

Fever Craved Sufferer Opens Fire on Woman—Wound Probably Mortal. Washington, Dec. 21. Mary R. Brown, a trained nurse, was shot and probably fatally wounded by Martin L. Sterling, a typhoid fever patient she was nursing. The shooting occurred at the home of Sterling. He had been quite ill but previous to this there had been no symptoms of derangement or delirium.