THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 7 February 1923, Page 5

THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE

A WIDOW’S LOVERS. TRAGEDY IN PARIS. Per Press Association —Copyright. Paris, February 6. A terrible drama, involving four deaths occurred iu a southern suburb of Paris. A bachelor named Muterer, aged fifty-nine, visited a former lover, a widow named Burif, for a few minutes. Muterer rushed from the house, exclaiming “That was a nice reception they gave me”; and the bodies of the widow Burif and another man were found m the house riddled with bullets. Six police officers called at Muter, eris hotel after midnight. Whep the chief knocked at the door of his room, Muterer did not answer. Then he half opened the door and fired a revolver, extinguishing the light. The poliee fired, a volley into the room in the darkness and Muterer returned the fire, killing a policeman. Then he managed to lock the door. The police sent for reinforcements, with asphyxiating gas, but Muterer shot himself dead. He had previously been imprisoned seven times for theft and attempted murder.

TWO MEN KILL EACH OTHER.. QUARREL OVER A GIRL. Paris, February 5. While the carnival was at its height, a than dressed as a harlequin, faced another dressed as a Mephistophles, and before the bystanders could interfere, the men were lying on the ground mortally wounded, having exchanged revolver shots. They were later identified as married men who had vowed to kill each other after a quarrel over a yodng woman.