WHOSE GLOVE?

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 98, 27 April 1922, Page 5

WHOSE GLOVE?

PARIS POLICE SEARCH. DEATH OF AJT ARISTOCRAT. LONDON, April IG. A crumpled little white glove and scorea of lovp letters from Parisiennes are ! clues on which the police are working ill the effort to unravel a mysterious drama which is intvijfuinjr all Paris. Captain Kobinit Marcy, a handsome and brilliant aristocrat, was found shot I dead in his flat, with a revolver lying near the body, half an hour after he had delivered at the .School of War a secret I paper connected with tanks. It was presumed that he had committed suicide, and ' his burial was ordered. , Jt has now transpired that, while the j magistrate was investigating the flat, a r pretty blonde, wearing a black veil. \ called and explained that she was keeping an appointment with Captain Alarcy. , She said she was shocked to hear of his 5 death, calmly viewed the body, and then , departed. She gave a name and address, but these were found to be fictitious. Madame Marcy. mother of the deceased, 1 later found on a divan a glove believed \ to belong to a second women, who visited f the flat shortly heforo Captain Marcy's , (loath. She is stated to have been a black- . haired woman of 40, and on intimate ) terms with the officer, ft is supposed .' that the fair-faired •noman was an etnis- : I gary of the seeftnd, and that she was sent Ito discover whether the shot had been . i fatal. li