TRAGEDY IN FLAT
TWO MEN DEAD AND WOMAN WOUNDED . FOLLOWING QUARREL GERMAN BAYONET USED PARIS, Sunday. The police had to use tear-gas bombs to enter a flat in the suburbs, where they found Cecil Diaz, described as an Australian sculptor, and a French ex-soldier, George Martin both dead, and Mademoiselle Noxaron seriously wounded. Mdlle. Novaron stated that Martin was her lover, and he was jealous of Diaz's purely friendly visits. Martin invited Diaz to dinner, and in the middle of the meal accused Diaz. A fight began, when Martin seized a German bayonet from the wall and stabbed Diaz seven times. He then shot her in the leg. She was woundecl and helpless, and throughout the nigEt she heard Diaz groaning in dying agony. When the police came in the mori}ing Martin held them at bay for three hours, till they brought teargas. Thpn he shot himself dead. .
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 91, 8 December 1931, Page 5
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