SHOT AND BURNED
CUSTOMS OFFICERS’ FATE YOUNG MAN CONFESSES INNSBRUCK, Oet. 23. The mystery surrounding the discovery last week of the charred bodies of three Italian customs officers in the burned ruins of a shelter hut in the Pussier Valley, has been cleared up by the confession of a 25-year-old Italian subject, Guffier, who some days ago was taken to Innsbruck Hospital suffering from bullet wounds in the lungs. On being questioned by the police Guffier admitted that no amt another man named Hofer were surprised by three customs officers while smuggling goods across‘ the Italian border. They were taken to the shelter hut, where they succeeded in overpowering their captors. They then shot the three officers and set lire to the hut iu order to efface all traces of the crime. Guffier, who was severely wounded in the course of the scuffle, was carried across the border into Austria by his accomplice, who then disappeared.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18234, 1 November 1933, Page 7
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