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Show KILLS GIRL, ESCAPES; IS LATER CAPTURED New York Merchant Becomes Murderous Maniac; Fatally Wounded in Struggle. INTDW YORK, July 23. Miss Esther Norling, 23 years of ago, of Eidgefiold Park, N. J., was shot and killed early today, it is alleged, b3r Charles Warner, her former employer, as she was entering' enter-ing' a haberdashory store on West Forty-sccoDd street, where she was employed em-ployed as a. bookkeoper. Warner, it is charged by the police, fired .several shots at A. R. Spicer? the manager of the store, while escaping. Warner fled to the store of A. C. Spanlding & Co., and although twenty policemen surrounded sur-rounded tho building and searched it thoroughly, no trace of Warner could be found. The police believe he was unbalanced by business reverses and other troubles. Miss Norling had reached tho door of the store when a shot was fired. Miss Norling half rodleQ and looked at tho man who had fired. 'fTt's Charley Warner; he shot mo," she cried. Warner slipped out of the door. A messenger boy saw him running with a rcvoiver and threw a brick, which struck the fleeing man in tho back. Angered, Warnor turned and fired at the. boy. His aim was bad, and. lto threw the weapon at the boy. Spiccr, who was chasing Warner, saw the gun and mado a dash for It, as did Warner, who, seizing it before Spicer could reach it, turned and sped tip tho street to the Spanlding establishment. estab-lishment. Policemen, attracted by the shooting, surrounded the building, and Policeman Police-man Wal6h, seeing Warner fleeing up the winding stairways to tho second floor, darted after him. The police hesitated, as tho fugitive fired a shot a to Walsh, and when thoj' recovered themselves Warnor had escaped. Spiccr said Warner, who is about 55 years of ago, had been calling for Miss isorlinff each evening, and that she had complained that iis attentions had annoyed an-noyed her, Wa rncr later appeared at the hat store of John C. Wilson, whom he knew, and asked for a loan of $10. When Mr, Wilson turned to got tho money Warner shot; him in the back and arm, inflicting wounds thought to be futal. Warner then fled, but was intercepted by a truckman. Warner shot at him, but missed. The truckman, to savo his life, felled Warner with a cotton hook, inflicting a fatal Injury. Warner was" hurried to a hospital. |
