FILM DRAMA IN REAL LIFE.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1928, Page 1

FILM DRAMA IN REAL LIFE.

BBUSSELS, June 2b. A story which—whether true or not—would easily make a thrilling film drama- has been related to the Antwerp police bv a man in the course of a complaint , lodged, against ft' .Brussels doctor and his wife lor assault. X, the complainant,' is a, rich man. He loved the girl whom the doctor, Z, married and remained on such irieiidly terms with her tlnit he willingly lent ...s successful .rival about £(100. . INVITED TO DINE. Unable to obtain recognition of the debt, he came to Brussels, and was invited to dinner by Dr mid Mrs Z. The meal was ii splendid one, accompanied hv.many bottles of wine. Suddenly Z was called away to a patient, leaving his wife alone with X. .limy, were talking quietly together when the woman, without the slightest reason—according to X—jumped up from her seat, overturned the table and screamed for help. The husband, dashing into the room, was told by his wife tliat.X had tried to molest her, and gave him a sound thrashing... .. POLICE SUMMONED. Z tiien ordered Xto sit at.a table and write to his • dictation. X, however, smashed the window and shouted for.the police. . When they arrived it was the doctor who spoke first. .He alleged that both he and his wife had been attacked by X, who, he said, was drunk.. X alleges, of course, that the whole affair was, a put-up job between the doctor and his wife with the object ot obtaining a written clearance of the debt. ■ ~.,1 The final scene will be staged by the police. a.>- •••