MURDER ON RIVIERA.
ENGLISH DANCER SHOT.
REJECTED LOVER'S CRIME.
- Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5,8 ]?.m.) LONDON, Mar. 12 A beautiful young dancer named Mary Frances Smith, well known in London cabarets, was shot dead at Nice by a rejected lover who boarded the motor-car in which she and her partner were departing at dawn fiom a dancing engagement. The lover, a young Italian, was arrested still grasping a revolver. The Daily Chronicle states that Miss Smith was: shot at Beausoleil, near Nice. When the motor-car was slowing down near her hotel after a drive with her partner, Michael Kinder, a youth named Vincent Sirello sprang forward and fired He said his killed the girl because she had rejected his advances. > Miss Smith was the daughter of a Bayswater riding-master. She as an attractive and skilful . dancer and appeared in. several London revues. Lately she had been engaged with Rinder at the Riviera Palace Hotel, Monte Carlo, and previously at the Queen's Hall, London. .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18657, 13 March 1924, Page 7
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