A man shot a woman doctor, then shot and fatally wounded himself at noon Saturday.  The shooting happened on the sidewalk in the 1500 block of Aline in full view of passersby.  One woman, who heard the shots, ran to their assistance.  She saw the two gunshot victims falling to the street.

    Shot were:

        Dr. Tillye Cornman,  33, a Psychiatrist.  905 Fern.

        Paul P. Toca, 44, of 911 Dauphine, a dock board patrolman, whom she had been treating.

    Toca died about an hour after the shooting at Touro Infirmary.  He wounded himself in the head.  Dr. Cornman had been shot twice in the stomach, and once in the chest.  She is an associate of Dr. Randolph Unsworth, who has offices at 1525 Aline.  The office is in the narrow block of buildings between Aline and Delachaise with St. Charles at one end of the block and Prytania at the other.

    Police said that Dr. Cornman was trying to get into the back door of her office, which opens on a little alleyway.  Toca, police said, apparently was lying in wait for her at the end of the alley close to Delachaise.  Mrs. Margaret Kennedy, 35, of 2134 Napoleon, secretary to Dr. Cornman, was at work in office, and heard the doctor at the back door.  "I heard something like a firecracker," she said.  This was the first shot.  "Then I heard Dr. Cornman scream my name 'Margaret!' 'Margaret!' 'Margaret!' several times. 

    I heard four or five more shots, I ran to the door.  The doctor was lying in the alley by the door.  I went and looked around the corner of the building on the Delachaise side and saw the man lying on the sidewalk.  "I had seen him the last time a week before at the office, where Dr. Cornman was treating him."  Mrs. Kennedy ran inside to telephone Touro Infirmary.  By this time Mrs. Doris Brown, 34, of 3323 St. Charles, a passerby, had run across the street to give assistance to the two victims.  She had just left the Toddle House, a door away from the doctor's office, with her son, Michael, 8.

BOY HEARD SHOTS

    They had crossed Delachaise and were heading home.  "Mamma, Oh, somebody's shot."  He had just heard the first shot ring out.  "Mike, it's nothing but a backfire," Mrs. Brown said.  Then she looked across Delachaise, toward the alley behind the doctor's office.

    "I looked just in time to see a man," she said.  "His left hand was dropping.  He had apparently just fired the shots.  It happened too quick for me to see it.  Then I saw the doctor fall.  And then I heard another shot.  The man was falling.  He had just shot himself, too fast for me to see him do it.

    "Mike and I ran across the street to where the doctor was.  "The woman was moaning, 'Oh, I'm shot! I'm shot! I'm shot!  "I saw Mrs. Kennedy, the secretary, come to the door, then go inside to get help.  Meanwhile, I took off my coat and put it under Dr. Cornman's head to make her comfortable. "I loosened her belt, to see if it would help her."

    Mrs. Kennedy later told police that Toca had been under treatment for an extremely oppressed condition and would have shot anyone.  She said Toca could not possibly have had a grudge against the doctor.

CALLS FOR DOCTOR

    The shots were also heard by Leo Ruckstuhl, 42, of 3517 Magazine, who was returning home from church.  He was on the other side of Aline from the scene of the shooting, but on hearing the shots he ran across the street.  Dr. Cornman was moaning, "Won't somebody get me a doctor?"

    Two physicians from Touro arrived, called an ambulance, and had the two victims taken to Touro Infirmary, half a block away.  The scene is in the heart of the uptown doctor's section about Touro, where there are scores of offices of doctors, nurses, internes, and druggists.

    Toca's mother, Mrs. Alice Toca, 911 Dauphine, said that Toca was a veteran of World War II and had served in an anti-aircraft unit in Europe.  He had never been in action, he told his mother on his return from overseas.  "A few planes flew over me a couple of times," he said.  He was unmarried.

    Toca had been away from his work as dock board patrolman for six months, because of illness.  "He has been very nervous for the past several months,"  Mrs. Toca said.  "He complained of pains all over his body.  He frequently vomited."  A brother of Toca said that Toca had been so nervous that he could not write his name.

"NERVES SHOT"

    "He has been going to Dr. Unsworth's office from four to six months," said the brother.  "his nerves have been shot all to pieces," the brother continued.  But both mother and brother insisted that Toca had not been violent and had never threatened anybody.  Six months ago Toca was operated on for hemorrhoids.  He was at home all Friday night and until 10 Saturday morning.  Then he told his mother he was going to see his sister, Mrs. Rhea Garcia, 1034 Royal, who works at a Canal St. department store.  The mother said she did not hear from him after that.  She added that her son had planned to go to Charity Hospital for treatment next week.

    Dr. Cornman is married and has one child, a year-old-daughter.  Her husband is Michael Hudson.