ENGLISH GIRL SHOOTS A THIEF.
Miss Nellie McCarthy, an” English girl of nineteen, who recently went To j Paris to take’a situation; as a governess, had an exciting'adventure with a would-be robber in ..tho Bqe Ramouteau.' " •- /.'-. She lost her wav amoqg ‘tlie Pans streets, and asked a woman named Bassett- to direct her to her-hotel in the Rue St. LTonorc- The -(toman of-, feted to .’show hpr the v.'ny, hut led: her-instead to her own apartments.. The woman induced her to enter, and.-then locked the door and demanded Miss McCarthy’s jewels and money; The English girl answered by producing a revolver and shooting the woman m the shoulder.
The police were called by tlie neighbors,/and; explanations at the police station led to the release, of Miss McCarthy. The woman Bassett is;in hospital, and will bp charged with attempted roliljery.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2111, 20 June 1907, Page 1
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139ENGLISH GIRL SHOOTS A THIEF. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2111, 20 June 1907, Page 1
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