A YOUTHFUL RUFFIAN
MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. JUST RETRIBUTION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright PARTS, February 13. Alexander Rzcgola, a young Pole, lodging with a family called Hoffa, at Bethune. fell in love with the daughter, aged eighteen. Tho parents discovered that the lodger was an undesirable character and gave him notice. Rzogola shot tho father and mother dead, and seriously wounded his sweetheart, then attempted suicide. Meanwhile a brother and a son of Hoffa, who had barricaded themselves in a room during tho shooting, jumped out of the window and fetched a revolver. They confronted the murderer, who was only slightlv wounded, and killed him. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19406, 16 February 1925, Page 7
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108A YOUTHFUL RUFFIAN Otago Daily Times, Issue 19406, 16 February 1925, Page 7
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