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Show HER ACTION IS STRANGE Woman Reports Shooting and Then" Takes Dosc of Laudanum. NEW TORK, Jane I. Policeman John McOovern was today shot twice and' dangerously wounded while attempting to arrest a man who was acting suspiciously sus-piciously In the street When McOovern McOov-ern called upon the man to halt he ran. pursued by the policeman, and finding himself being overtaken, turned and fired three shots, one of which passed through MeGovern Y lung and the other shattered bis left hand. The shooting was reported at a nearby police station by a woman giving- the name of EarL Several hours later she was found in a vscant lot suffering from laudanum poisoning and was taken to -the hospital where MeGovern lay. The doctors succeeded in saving her life. She declared the shooting had nothing to do With her attempt at suicide. |