Monte Carlo Murder.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43215, 15 August 1907, Page 2

Monte Carlo Murder.

A CONFESSION.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

PARIS, Yesterday,

Gookl confessed to the Magistrate that the day before the murder, Levin asked him to lend her 500 f francs. She came to the villa to be paid the money. She asked for another 500, explaining that she wanted to give it to her banker. He refused and heated words followed, and in a fit of rage accentuated by drink, stabbed her in the back only one blow. His wife did not participate in the deed. He alone cut the body up and placed the dismeinbered parts in the trunk and valise. Robbery was not the motive, as he had ample means to live. The Goolds were ordered to leave the Marseilles Hotel. The waitep provided them with a deal box, and it is surmised they intended to transfer the head and legs from the bag. Madame Levin lost heavily gambling at Monte Carlo, and told the chambermaid she was unable to resist the attractions of the tables Mrs Goold, replying to the examining magistrate, confessed that her husband murdered Levin with an Indian knife, she was not present, but entering the room saw Levin dead on the floor, and her husband - covered with blood. Hd feiplored her to go away with him all suspicions, as he was - fra. druii|r. He began cutting up thefremains This was done next day.-pSlie was unable to explain why her husband killed the woman. LONDON, Yesterday. The Daily Telegraph’s Marseilles correspondent reports that after the magistrate’s departure Goold hanged himself in prison.