BRITTANY MYSTERY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19283, 22 September 1924, Page 7

BRITTANY MYSTERY

TWO SHOTS FIRED

OOMTESSE MAINTAINS HER INNOCENCE.

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 19. The Daily Telegraph’s Paris correspondent says that a most important discovery has been made in connection with the Comte do Keminon mystery. The Comtesse, who was accused by the Comte on his death-bed, maintained that only one shot was fired, and that it was accidental. At the inquiry, the magistrate discovered a second bullet embedded in a door, and he asked how a defective revolver could explode twice accidentally when requiring to be cocked by hand each, time. He also discovered that a door panel had been broken by vigorous kicking. The Comtesse said she kicked it in her anxiety to fetch assistance, but the magistrate pointed out that she was wearing only stockings, and that this was done by boots. The Comtesse refuses to confess, stoutly maintaining her innocence.—A- and N.Z. Cable.

The Comte Roger le Roux de Keminon who was found with four revolver wounds, died, and was buried in the family vault. The wounds were announced to be the result of an accident. The Comtesse, who has since been accused, declares that the Comte’s typisto, Mdlle Tedelec, conspired to secure the Comte s death with two cousins of the victim in order to obtain an inheritance. Under examination the Comtesse maintained her innocence, although the judge pointed out that while the Comte might have inflicted one wound himself he could not have been responsible for four. The body was exhumed, and an autopsy revealed two bullets. The shooting was not accidental, but was the result of a crime.