FRONTIER TRAGEDY
FATE OF ITALIANS SHOT P|Y SMUGGLERS INNSBRUCK. Oct. 2.j The mystery .surrounding the discovery Inst week of the charred bodies of three Italian customs officers in the burned ruins of a shelter Imfc in the Passier Valley, has been cleared up by the confession of a 23-year-old Italian subject, Gufflcr, who some days ago was taken to Innsbruck Hospital suffering from bullet wounds in the lungs. On being questioned by the police Gufflcr 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 pet fire to the hut in order to efface all traces of the crime. Guftler, who was severely wounded in the course of the; scuffle, was carried across the border into Austria by his accomplice, who theu disappeared.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21638, 2 November 1933, Page 10
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