’PHONE BOX DRAMA

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 86, 7 April 1934, Page 5

’PHONE BOX DRAMA

ENGLISHWOMAN SHOT DEAD LOVER MAKES CONFESSION PARIS, March 22. A beautiful English girl, Maria Caril, aged nineteen, was dramatically shot dead in a telephone booth in a dance hall at Lyons. Paradoxically, her- murderer had. previously been too bashful to speak to her. Miss Caril, who had been staying at a sanatarium at Hauteville, near Lyons, was seated with a party at a table in the dance hall, when Pierre Astier approached and asked her for a moment's private conversation. The two went into a telephone booth. There came almost immediately a revolver shot. The door opened and Miss Caril fell out, bleeding at the breast. She was taken to hospital and operated on, but without result. Astier made a statement, saying he had never had the courage previously to speak to Miss Caril. “I told her so in the telephone booth, asking her hand in marriage in a friend’s name,' at which she laughed. I next asked her would her answer be the same if I had asked her to marry me. She replied, ‘Of course!’ Then I drew a revolver and shot her.”