GIRL SHOT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 156, 3 July 1937, Page 11

GIRL SHOT.

■ I, HUSBAND'S CHARGE, i JEALOUSY MOTIVE. TEARS AT WEDDIHG. I (From Our Own Correspondent.) j NEW MILTON (Hampshire*. June fi. ''She was murdered because of jealousy." Thus. was the statement made by Leonard Gulliver, a 23-year-old New Milton carpenter, after he had heard that his beautiful Austrian bride. Stephanie, had l>een found shot dead [near Krems. Austria, beside the body of an Austrian Air Force corporal. The corporal was Alois Duchac. a friend of Stephanie's shooldavs. Near their bodies was a note saying that they had committed suicide because of "a hopeless love." Stephanie was buried at Stein, the small Austrian town in which she lived before her marriage. Duchac. the Austrian police believe, shot Stephanie and then climbed a tree. After attaching a rope to a branch and tying it round his neck, he shot himself. He apparently used the rope in case the bullet should fail. Stephanie was married to Gulliver in September. She was in tears at the wedding because she had just given her employer notice. She wanted to find a situation in Kngland for her young sister in Austria. but could not obtain the necessary permits. Gulliver married her so that she could have English nationality and so remain in the country. '•Stephanie went to Austria in April 'because file wa> going to be a mothei I and wanted to tell her parents." Gullivei I -a id. "She thought she had better gn jas she might not bp able to vi»it ihen {again for some years. I expected h.M jhome yesterday. I "A School Friend." I "She never would ha\e committee 1 suicide, considering the condition sh< vu in. She wu looking forward t<

coming home to me. We lived very' | happily together in Manor Road. I j "Duchac was a schoolboy friend ofj hers. I was not at all jeaious of him.] as they had never been engaged. It was. a harmless friendship. I did not hear) ,of The tragedy until I returned homei from work to have my lunch. "Duchac. I am convinced, shot my wife and killed himself. He was proli-i 'ably jealous that she was returning! home to me."' j Never Settled Down. j j Mrs. H. D. Burton, of Abbey L vs. near) New Milton, who employed Stephanie l before her marriage, said she did not think the girl had ever settled down in '' England. | •j "She was essentially Austrian." she [| added, "and Austrian*—l am one iiivjself—find it rather difficult t<> -ettle down to English ways and the climate, ri " 11,e marriage was rather hurried. b ! Stephanie was in tears becau-e she had j! given me notice to leave and wa« hopjing to get another situation. t<> which could bring her little sister. "Unfortunately, it was impossible t<> ,get permits, and Mr. (iulliver rather pl took pity on her and married her—so tliot she could remain in England."