SMUGGLER CONFESSES
TRIPLE MURDER STORY INNSBRUCK, Oct. 26. The mystery .surrounding the discovery of the charred bodies of three Italian Customs officers in the burned ruins of a shelter hut in the Passier Valley, has been cleared up by the confession of a 25-year-old Italian subject Guff lev, who was taken to Innsbruck Hospital suffering from bullet wounds in the lungs. On being questioned by the police Guffler admitted that he and another man named Hofer were surprised by three Customs officers while smuggling goods across the Italian border. They were taken to the shelter hut, where they succeeded in overpowering their captors. They then shot the three officers and set fire to the hut in order to efface all traces of the crime. Guffler, who was severely wounded in the course of the scuffle, was carried across the border into Austria, by his accomplice, who then disappeared*.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 6 November 1933, Page 6
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148SMUGGLER CONFESSES Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 6 November 1933, Page 6
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