LOVER'S JEALOUSY
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TRAGEDY IN PARIS FLAT TWO MEN KILLED POLICE USE TEAR-GAS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 11.40 a.m. to-day. PARIS, Dec. 6. The police had to nse tear-gas bombs to enter a flat in the suburbs. They found Cecil Diaz, described as an Australian sculptor, and a French ex-soldier, George Martin, aged oo years, both dead, and Mdlle. Novaron seriously wounded. Mdlle. Novaron stated that Martin, her lover, was jealous of Diaz’s purely friendly visits. Martin invited Diaz to dinner and in the middle of the meal accused Diaz. A fight began and Martin seized a German bayonet from the wall and stabbed Diaz seven times. He shot her in the leg and she was wounded and helpless. Throughout the night she heard Diaz groaning in dying agony. When _ the police came in the morning Martin held them at hay for three hours till they brought tear-gas. He then shot himsel f dead.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 7 December 1931, Page 7
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159LOVER'S JEALOUSY Hawera Star, Volume LI, 7 December 1931, Page 7
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