WHOSE GLOVE?

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4576, 29 April 1922, Page 3

WHOSE GLOVE?

PARISH POLICE SEARCH. DEATH OF AN ARISTOCRAT. London, April 16. A crumpled little white glove' and scores of love letters from Parisienues are clue s on which the police are working in the eifort to unravel a mysterious drama which is intriguing all Paris. Captain Robinit Marcy, a handsome and brilliant aristocrat, was found shot dead in his flat, with a revolver lying near the body, half an hour after he had delivered at the School of AVar a secret paper connected with tanks. It was presumed that ho had committed suicide, and his burial was ordered. It has now transpired that, while the magistrate was investigating the flat, a pretty blonde, wearing a black veil, called and explained that she was keeping an appointment with Captain Marcy. She said she was shocked to hear of his death, calmly viewed the body, and then departed. She gave a name and address, but these w-ere found to be flictitious. 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 Marey's death. She is stated to have been a black-haired woman of 40, and on intimate terms with the officer. It is supposed that the fairhaired woman was an emissary of the second, and that she was sent to discover whether the shot had been fatal.