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j Girl Shot in Trying toPresent Man Killing SelfiTulsa, Okla., (.V)— Helen Lincoln, i 17, who quit school for u. dancing 5 career, lay paralyzed In a hospital hero today, dangerously wounded, while police held her 2t*ycux old sweetheart without charge been use it was his pistol that was fired ae-oldontally Into her spine.She was shot n‘ she tried to i wrest from the man, VV. II. Mar-j tin, a .38 calibre pistol with which ! I ha attempted to shoot himself af*I ter she refused to marry him.! The shooting occurred on the ' mezzanine floor of a large hotel ; hero yesterday where Martin had ! taken the girl to plead his cause.| Martin, who lived nt the Lincoln 'home, whs cleared of blame by lhe| i girl. She and her mother, Mrs. Hester Lincoln, said they would not prosecute, but officers detained him, pending the outcome of the jfilTs injury.
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Hutchinson News
Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Sat, Jan 27, 1934
Page 3
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