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Shoots Teacher – Commits Suicide
Rejected Suitor Slays Employer’s Daughter Before School
Children
Sends Bullet Through His Head a Moment Later in Near
Cornfield
Hartington, Nebraska, September 18 -- Cora Hitnz, teacher in a rural school several
miles southwest of this city, was shot and instantly killed yesterday morning
at 9:30, by Frank Faust.
After committing the deed Faust ran to a cornfield about
half a mile from the school and committed suicide by shooting himself behind
the right ear.
Miss Hintz was 18 years old and a daughter of J. M. Hintz,
living four miles east of Coleridge.
Faust has been employed by Hintz and had been attempting to
force his attentions upon the girl.
Sunday night he called at the farm home where Miss Hintz was
boarding and was refused admittance.
Yesterday morning he called at the school house after school
had be called. Miss Hintz left the room
and after a brief conversation the school children heard four shots fired and
saw the murderer run by the windows.
Talk of marriage
From bits of the conversation the children overheard he had
attempted to induce the girl to marry him.
A few years ago Faust attempted suicide by taking chloroform
because a young lady refused to marry him.
Faust shot the girl behind the left ear at such close range
that her clothing was badly burned.
After entering the corn field he apparently reloaded his
revolver fro when his body was found the revolver was lying in front of him
with the chamber loaded with shells and only one discharged. He had two loaded cartridges in his left
hand.
The deed was doubtedly premeditated, as he purchased the
revolver in Coleridge Saturday.
Faust’s parents live in Pennsylvania. He has two aunts residing in the vicinity of
Coleridge.
The Lincoln Daily Star – Tuesday, September 18, 1917
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