AN AMAZING MURDER
SHOT DEAD AS A JOKE. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER’S PARTY. Prog* Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 4. (Received Sept. 5, at 7.55 p.m.) The Daily Telegraph’s Paris, correspondent says that an amazing murder as a joke has been perpetrated by a young Parisian girl named Helene. An elderly commercial traveller named Henri, Durand, desiring an, evening’s fun, invited two. girls, Helene and Lucienne, to dinner; They drank freely, and becoming excited, concluded a suicide pact, in which Durand would the girls and then himself. The girls (fared Durand to carry out tho programme. Helene said, "Give me the revolver. I will do it.” Ho handed over the weapon and Helene shot him and then fired at Lucienne but missed. Helene left Durand dying and coolly went homo to sleep. When she was arrested in the morning she refused to believe that Durand was dead. She told the police that in any case it was only a joke.—A. and N.Z. .Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19270, 6 September 1924, Page 9
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