RIVAL LOVERS’ DUEL.
ACCEPTED SUITOR KILLED. A fierce tragedy of passion at the town of Volkach in Lower Franconia, shows that it is not only poets whose minds are turned by millers’ daughters. In this case the lady had been intimate with her father’s man, but had thrown him over in favour of a locksmitJL As she' was returning home one evening with her new swain, the jilted lover lay in wait for them, and opened fire on his rival with a revolver. The locksmith, who was also armed, returned the fire, and the lady rode off on a bicycle to fetch the police, leaving her two admirers hotly engaged. When the police arrived, they found the locksmith dead with four or five bullet wounds in his body. The cartridge cases scattered around show- ■ cd that no fewer than fifteen shots had been fired in this strange duel. The survivor of the combat went back to the mill, and shot' himself dead before he could be arrested.
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Otaki Mail, 7 September 1923, Page 3
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