MURDER OF MAID.
A WIDOW’S GRIME. SENSATIONAL DENOUEMENT. Press Association-Electric Telegriph-Copjr'ghV. NICE, Wednesday. An aged widow’s story of how she allegedly foiled a murderer in her lonely villa had thrilled visitors to the Riviera, where the alarming frequency of brutal assaults is causing concern. The widow related that a burglar burst- into her bedroom early in the morning, waving a revolver and a blood-stained chopper, and gave her tho option of surrendering her jewels or death. She calmly told him her maid had the. key of the secret hiding-place, adding: “If you kill me you will never find them.” The burglar agreed to wait, and downstairs she found tlie body of her maid with her head split open. While the burglar was engrossed in searching for the key, the widow telephoned for the police, but the burglar escaped.
Later there was a sensational denouement, when the widow confessed to killing the maid, after a violent quarrel, and faking the burglary story to avert suspecion.—A.P.A. and “Sun.”
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 15 December 1927, Page 5
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