WHOSE GLOVE?

Evening Star, Issue 17956, 1 May 1922, Page 8

WHOSE GLOVE?

A PARIS .TRAGEDY. LONDON, April, 16. A crumpled little white glove, and scores of love letters from Barisienncs are clues on which the police are v/orking in the effort to unravel a mysterious drama which is intriguing all Baris. Captain Robinit Marcy, a handsome and) brilliant aristocrat, was found shot dead in his flat, with a revolver lying near the hodv, half an hour after'he had delivered at the School of War a,secret paper connected with tanks. It was presumed that he had committed suicide, and his burial was ordered. It has now transpired that, while tne magistrate was investigating the flat, a pretty blonde, wearing a black veil, called and explained thaffislie was keeping an appointment with Captain Marcy. She said she was shocked toTicar of his death, calmly viewed Ilia body, and then departed. She gave, a name and address, but these were found to bo fictitious. Madame Marcy, mother of the deceased, later found on a divan a glove believed to belong to a second woman, who visited the flat shortly before Captain Marcy’s death. She is stated l to have been a blackhaired woman of forty, and ou intimate terms with the officer. It is supposed that the fair-haired woman was an emissary of the second, and that film was sent to discover whether the shot had been fatal.