JEALOUS RUSSIAN HUSBAND
SHOOTS SEVEN PEOPLE. THEN COMMITS SUICIDE. LONDON, December 2. Michael Hodotschenko, who, besides being a Russian refugee and a member of an orchestra playing in a restaurant at No vised, South Slavic-, was a jealous husband, shot seven people in public and then committed suicide (says the Vienna, correspondent of the London ‘Daily Mail ). At midnight Hodotschenko took a seat in the restaurant near tho orchestra, in whiedi both his wife and her lover were playing. He swallowed a glass of wine, stood up, shot his wife and her lover, and fired at five other members of the orchestra. Every shot was effective. Hodotschenko then shot himself. Three of his victims died instantaneously and tho others died in hospital.
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Evening Star, Issue 18509, 17 December 1923, Page 5
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122JEALOUS RUSSIAN HUSBAND Evening Star, Issue 18509, 17 December 1923, Page 5
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