FRENCH LOVE TRAGEDY
ARMENIAN’S TERRIBLE DEED. FOUR MURDERS AND SUICIDE. (Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright.) PARIS, December 26. (Received Dec. 27, at 10.5 p.m.) A love tragedy resulted in four murders and a suicide at Grasso. An Armenian labourer named Dedjian was staying at Grasse with his fiancee, her parents, sister, and tw o young brothers. The girl, for health reasons, decided not to marry Dedjian, who armed himself with an axe and broke into the house. He murdered the other sister and two brothers, and then stabbed his fiancee before committing suicide. The tragedy was discovered by a young deaf and dumb girl friend of the fiancee, who came to the nouse after the massacre. She was so horrified that her reason is in peril.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20292, 28 December 1927, Page 9
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