FOUR PEOPLE SHOT AT DINNER.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3501, 1 June 1920, Page 6

FOUR PEOPLE SHOT AT DINNER.

HUSB;\;\'D’S REVENGE FOR THREATS OF DIVORCE. A terrible .l£:z.<ter family tragedy was enacted in the working-class quarter of Pal'i.~:, when 3. husband tool; vengeance upon his young wife. who was suing him for divorce, by killing her and ller mother, and seriously wounding her fzltlrer and her brother. The fzunily were just sitting down to dinner or their home, witli several friends ‘as guests, when a violent ringing of the bell xvas heard. The wife’s mofher rushed to open the door of the flat, and found herself coiifronted by her sou-in-law, Lucien Ribef", aged 30, who denrunded to see his wife, who had taken refuge at the home of her pzlren’ts on uceount. of the brutality of her husband. The mother, who knew her dmxgliter did not wan? to have anything; to do with her lmsbund, refused to let him into the flat, lnllt. Ribet drew :1. revolver nnd shot his mother-in—l-aw dead. He then leupt into the room where the family was sifting and shot his wife dead. He fired the remaining cartridges at her father an:l_l)rother, and then ‘rushed from the house.

As soon as the police could be summoned tho assassin was traced from one cafe to another until ran to earth at 11 p.m., when it was ‘found he was too drunk to be interrogated. The murdcrr2l"s wife was only 19. Her father. who was shot. in =the throat, is not expected to live, Her brother aged 13, was wounded in the thigh.