A GASLIGHT DUEL.
(Press Aesn— By Telegraph— Copyright) BERNE, Nov. 30. Madame Eemanda lias been acquitted on a charge of killing! her husband.
The affair was described in a cablegram from Berne on September 20. Ail extraordinary duel between husband and wife occurred by gaslight in the principal street. A kiosk-keeper, who kid been itninisoned for ill-treating his wife, waited for the latter when she was returning from work and shot her in. the back; She fell, but rising; to her knees; drew a revolver which Bhe. carried ■) iri her blouse since her maltreatmentV arid returned her husband's lire at a distance of 25 yards. The crowd was panicstricken. Each of them fired five shots, and Remanda was shot' in the hend and died. His wife was wounded ...three times. '• J ; .•-.' .' . . . ■■'•■• . : .■'"■■"'. '-■ ■'...'""
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12318, 1 December 1910, Page 5
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131A GASLIGHT DUEL. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12318, 1 December 1910, Page 5
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