LOVE TRAGEDY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 392, 2 June 1908, Page 4

LOVE TRAGEDY.

A dramatic love tragedy occurred in the Russian students’ colony in Paris on April 2nd. Alexander Gueska, aged 20, a Russian student at Odessa, was deeply in love with a fellow-student, Mile. Gilinsky. She ignored his advances, however, and some months ago she came to Paris in order to study at the Sorbonne. A few weeks ago she became engaged to be married. The news reached Gueska, at Odessa, and he at once set off for Paris. About 8 o’clock at night he called at the rooms of Mile. Gilinsky, in the Rue Malebranche, and violently protested against her forthcoming marriage. The girl told him that his journey had been a needless expense, as he knew well she did not love him, and had no desire to see him. At these words the young man suddenly drew a revolver from his pocket and fired at the girl, wounding her slightly. He then turned the weapon against himself, and shot himself dead. Mile. Gilinsky, who was suffering from shock more than her wound, undertook to pay the funeral expenses so that the remains of the unfortunate compatriot would not be transferred to the morgue.