GIRL’S CONFESSION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 438, 2 December 1930, Page 7

GIRL’S CONFESSION

SHOT MAN SHE LOVED STRANGE CRIME IN PARIS MOTIVE PLAINLY STATED ( By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.] Received Dec. 1, 7,30 p.m. PARIS, Nov. 30. A Paris policeman on point duty in the Avenue de 1’ Opera, seeing a motorcar out. of control collide with a lamppost ami knock it down, found the driver, M. Heurteur, musical director of grand cinema, shot and dying. A girl, Rachel Mery, sitting alongside him, said she killed him because she loved him. “Otherwise he would have killed me,” she said. M. Heurteur died in hospital Later details reveal the extraordinary character of the murder. Madetn oiselle Mery, the twenty-one-year-old daughter of wealthy parents, in a full statement to the. police made no secret of her motive. She said she had met M. Heurteur at the cinema whore she was the conductor of the orchestra. A liaison sprang up between them, but as M. Heurteur never allowed her into his flat, she became convinced that there was another woman. Yesterday, in company with a friend, she called at his flat. M. Heurteur mot her at the door, but did not allow her to enter. He offered to drive Mademoiselle Mery’s friend back to the suburbs. When they were returning to Paris Mademoiselle Mery accused the man of duplicity. He replied that her constant suspicions were intolerable. Mademoiselle Mery said she had a revolver in her handbag, whereupon M. Heurteur said, “Kill me if you like, or commit suicide. It is all the same to me.” Exasperated at his indifference. Mademoiselle Mery said she slowly slid her hand behind his head and shot him in the back of the neck.