The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-06
SHOT IN DENTISTS OFFICE
YRS. AGNES HNWERTILLE
TRIES TO NM HERSELF.
Dr. JshR Harris Sf Nlbany says sl'e HAD
Attempted Three Time. 10 sheet HIua
Because He Refused 10 EiSPe Win
lIer Pollee Put Iter out % TSWR.


because He Refused 10 EiSPe Win
lIer PolIee Put IIer Out ~ TSWR.
ALBANY. June S. Considerable mystery
surrounds the attempt % Mrs. Agnes
Summerville. wife u Harry A. Summer
vile. a drummer for a drug house. Ia
commit suicide In the once Of DR.. John
A. Hurdis. = well known Albany dentist
to-day After spending several days
IN Albany. during which time DR. Hurdis
says she tried to persuade him TO desert
his wife and fiee with her Mrs. summsrville
trick"d the dentist into going to his once
early to-day. and again failing in her
purpose she shot herself in the left breast
She i in the Albany Hospital in critical
condition.
Dr. Hurdis says that Mrs.. summsrville
Is former Albanian. Her home now II
said TO he AZ sIs West iss,h street. New
York city. Eighteen months ago. Hurdis
SAYS. Mrs Summerville became a patient
Of his. A. that time she lived here.
Little Is apparently known Of her family
connection beyond the belief Of the den
fist that her maiden name was Agnes
Murray aud that her father Is or was at
one time a politician in New York city.
The daughters marriage to summerville,
Hurdis says. estranged the daughter from
her father Dr. Hurdis saws he is at loss
for any better means Of identifying the
woman
On Friday last Mrs S,nnmeryille came
20 Albany. aud going 20 DR. Hurdis's
ONCE a. 50 State street demanded that he
quit his business and 60 TO New York
with her Hurdis says he was amazed
a. the demands Oi the woman and told
her TO 20 back TO her husband She
left the ONCE reluctantly On saturday
Mrs Summervills returned and renewed
her demands Hurdis says he threatened
10 call the police. whereVpon the woman
pulled a ~ calibrs revolver from her
skirt pocket and told him that she in
tended to kill him Hurdis says he had
10 throw her 10 the floor before he sue
Cesded in wrestling the gun away from
her
She left his office only TO return an hour
later. and getting in a second time drew
another revolver and attempted 20 pull
the trigger Hurdis ssid that in Wrestling
the weapOn away from her this time he
almost had 20 break her fingers. They
fought desperately In the dental parOra
for half an hour. the woman struggling
20 discharge the revolver az the dentist's
head OF body.
Hurtis succeeded in getting a police
man. who escorted Mrs, summerville 10
the train Hurdis says he knows she
went TO New York He believes the
woman returned on the boat last night
Early to-day d. Hurdis was called on
the telephone by a woman who said shs
was Mrs Emerson She said she
needed the dentists attention immedi-
ately a. her teeth were aching severely.
Hurdis went TO his Ofice.
When he started 20 unlock his once
door h. saw a woman hiding in the out
side hallway Il was Mrs. Summerville
and she was crouchink near the DENTS,
with still another revolverHconcealed IN
her skirt Hurdis grabbed her and pushed
her into HE once
A. this time a clerk in the Ofios %
William r Shields. a broker. adjoining
the dentists Office, appeared and Hurdis
told him 10 stay in the ONCE a. he feared
the woman. Mrs Summerville went into
the back room willis Hurdis islsphOned
for the police
Hurdis was still al the telephone when
be- heard the revolver shot and went 10
the back room. where Mrs. Somerville !
lay She had turned the gun on herself. |
the bullet going through her breast down
into her abdomen When Chief Of Police |
Hyatt saw Mrs. Somerville a. the hospital |
she said Hurdls had shot her but later !
she admitted that she intended taking |
her own life
DR. Hurdis IL a well known baTytons
singer and Ia prominent in church. frAter-
nal and social circles here. He says he
cannot imagine any reason for Mrs.
Somerville's actions unless she IL insane. |