SIX PERSONS KILLED.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1923, Page 9

SIX PERSONS KILLED.

A HUSBAND’S REVENGE. TRAGEDY IN VIENNA. Vienna, Dec. 2. Murderous hate—hate born, of a wife’s faithlessness, biding its time' till It struck and slew—is the motive' of a i teal life story from Vienna. Michael Hodotschenko had fled from Russia after the Bolshevik revolution to find safety for himself and his beautiful young wife in the town of Novisad, iu Southern Yugo-Slavia. He had little money, but he obtained a position after a while in a restaurant, where he played in the orchestra. So did his wife. What gave Michael his first glimpse of the intimacy which gradually arose between his wife and the big, toofriendly conductor of the orchestra is not known, but the realisation stung his heart to madness. He said nothing of his discovery, waiting his opportunity for revenge. One evening he was absent from the restaurant. Toward midnight be entered and took a seat at a table near the orchestra. Ats the last stroke of twelve died away he swallowed his glass of wine at a gulp, and stood up. His wife’s scream as the heavy revolver glittered in his hand was drowned in the roar of the shot, and she fell dead. Her lover crashed to the floor with the second explosipn. Amid a pandemonium of shrieks and yells from the occupants of the restaurant, the other members of the orchestra attempted to seize the triumphant assassin, live in succession paid for the attempt with their lives, three being killed outright, while two others died after their removal to the hospital. Then, his ammunition exhausted, the murderer turned his last, shot on himself, and fell dead amid the corpses of his victims.