| Show physician gHyS r ICIAN KIL 1 I 6 I 1 N HIS OWN HOME i SUPPOSED TO BE OF A MANS VENGEANCE I 1 av I 1 ja telephone Tele wires had been cut and slayer mysteriously disa appe appealed re a lilt s 1 I 4 A V I 1 new aorl Iano 26 rles W townsend one 0 ot ATO best hest physicians and surgeons on staten island was shot and probably mortally wounded in his home at new brighton S I 1 early today the case Is Bur ur rounded by mystery but from the meagre details which have been permitted to leak out boctor by b the officials it is believed the doctor was the victim of a man who sought vengeance for some real or fancied wrong that it was not the act of a burglar appears to be borne bortle out by the fact that nothing was taken from the house and by stories Er told the coroner coi by neighbors of dr townsend and his wife I 1 the coroner declines to make m ake known I 1 any of the information obtained fr fre orra orr dr townsend and his wife he lie declares that to do so would tend to defeat the ends of justice dr townsend and his wife were awakened shortly before 4 by a suspicious around found and a moment ment later they were startled by the flash of a match which revealed a roan man holding a m match il in one hand and a revolver in the other Le velling the revolver at dr townsend the intruder order ed him to arise at once then without waiting a moment he lie fired the bullet grazed grazini the doctors body and burled itself in the bed clothes an other ahot shot followed almost Ini immedi abely and the bullet entered the doctors abdomen and pierced the in te stines A third bullet lodged near the heart the assailant then fled how he got out of the house Is not known as every door and window was closed when help arrived when mrs townsend tried to call assistance sho she found that two of the three telephone bires leading to the house had been cut the third which was in the doctors ot of nee fice in ili the lower part of tho the house apparently had been overlooked over this wiro a servant in the th stable was notified noti fled and word given to a tho the police despite lack of any any apparent trace of the man who fired dred the shot the coroner appears satisfied satIs fled that he will soon lc be apprehended I 1 |
