NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1929, Page 6

NEWS BY MAIL.

■ * SHOT HER LOVER. GENEVA, Nov. 14. The inhabitants of the fashionable quarter of Zurich were startled yesterday by the sound of revolver shots coming from the apartment occupied by an attractive women named Kaegi, aged 28.

When the police broke open the door they found a Doctor of Philosophy named Antoine Bertossa lying dead on the floor, while the woman was in a dying condition, having apparently taken poison. Dh. Bertossa had promised the woman, who was living apart from her husband that he would get a divorce and marry her, but Tie went to her flat yesterday with the intention of breaking off the relationship. When she learned of his intention she shot him five times.

HIS 23 NAMES. *. SOUTHEND, November 14. The Southland police think that the Walter Charles Picketts arrested in Austria is the Walter Arthur Charles Dicketts for whom they have been searching since April. They have communicated with the Home Office with a view of obtaining his extradition. Altogether Walter Arthur. Charles i Dicketts is known to the police by 23 different l names. He is now 3i, the age. of the man under arrest. Early this year he ran away with and married Miss Alma Wood, aged IG, of Leigh-on-sea, whose father, it is alleged, is among a number of people who parted wjth money after listening to his plausible stories. It is known that he has lately been on the Continent. His young wife, who left him a fortnight after the wedding, when she knew the police wanted him, has recently received a letter with the Antwerp postmark. In this Dicketts told of the “great love” he still bears her, and while imploring her to make no effort to obtain a divorce, enclosed in a letter an hotel bill as evidence that he stayed in Cardiff with a women as Mr and Mrs A. H. Smith.