SIX PERSONS KILLED
* I A BXSUAXD 'S R&YESGE. ! TRAGEDY IN VIENNA. VIENNA, December 12. Murderous hate—hate born o: a wife's faithlessness, biding ita tisu till it it; uck and slew—is th*> motive of a real life story from Vienna, Michael Hodo;;;ch-..:-:o nad 2ed from Russia after the Boiihevik revolution to End safety tor-himself ana his beautiful young wife in the town of Novisad, in (Southern Yugo-Slavia. He had little money, but lie obtained a position after a while in a restaurant, where he played in the orchestra. So did his wife. | VHiat gave Sliehael his £n»t glimpse j of the intimacy which gradually azo&9 j between his wife and the big, too ! -friendly conductor of the orchestra is no,t known, but the realisation stung . his heart to madness. Kc said nothing of his discovery, waiting hia opportunity fors revenge. One evening he iras absent-from the restaurant. Toward midnight j he entered, and took a seat at a. table near the orchestra. As the last stroke of 12 died away be swallowed his I gla&s of wine at a gulp, and stood up. i His wife's scream as the keafjr r*i vclvej- glittered xu his hand wa< j 4rc,wned- in the roar of the shot, and she, fell" dead. Her lover crashed "iq the floor' with the second ecplosioa. Amid a pandemonium of shrieks and yells from the occupants of tie j restaurant, the other xasaiier- ~~ tr , _ I orchestra ..~»;£sp£d"to assassin. Five in sueceK i sion paid for the attempt with their j, lives, -three beinjp killed: outright, j while twx> „" ot&an -dte3 after their. ! removal tp tS« BOBpltiL - Then,-his ;.inmuiiition exhausted. Has munJsre-r . turned-its'Xaafc-fflioi "on-Umself, ansl -fell, dead - amid Qfe. vaxpstß uS. hit -victims, . ''-■•" * H " i
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Otaki Mail, 4 January 1924, Page 3
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