THE MONTE CARLO TRAGEDY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8510, 15 August 1907, Page 5

THE MONTE CARLO TRAGEDY.

~Received August 14, igjßß-a.m. > PARIS, August. 13. > The Goolds ordered a -Marsielles ; hotelvV, aiter to provide ,them with i deal-box, in which, it as susmised, it . was; intended to transfer ,£he liead . . andAegs from the bag. i' Madame Levin lost ;heavily at jgamblir.g at Monte Carlo, and she _ told, a. chambermaid that she wasuUnt , able to. xesist. the attcastien of, the ; , tables. } . MRS GOOLD CONFESSES. ■, . ;GO OLD DRUNK AT THE TIME ; ; CF THE TRAGEDY. Rec;ei r ed August 14, M/lOtpm. PARIS, August 14. i-Mrs Geold, replying to |the.-exara-magistrate, .confessed that Lfe?3* husband murdered Mrs sLevin "with an;lndian knife. She was not -present jatvthe time of the irs&edy, on entering room ;she saw iiirs-Levin siead on the floor., ;and her covered with blood, Se am-".Ko-iad her to help hira i-o jaslscuspiciftsj. Jic v/as.t-GOidrunk to begin <mj:|:ng us>:tbe remaps then, ana this .was done iiext day. Goold-v?as unable to explain wbj ; .husi&®r.d killed the, woman. (»D .CONFESSES TO THE j:' MURDER. ' j COMMUTED "IN.A FIT OF RAGE, j ROBBERY -NOT 'THE MOTIVE, j Received Jkugust £4, 11.17 p.m. PARJS, August 14. Goold confessed to the magistrate .that on the day beftae the murder liMrs Levin asked faftn Sto lend her 500 She f-asee to hi« villa and he .paj'd her the money. She asked him -for another 500 francs, .explaining Jhpt she wanted to give |t to the He refused, an<S heated m .words followed, and in a fij of rage by drink, he stabbed jjer in Jte back with only one blow. Sis wife <did not participate in tLe tragedy. He alone cut upthefeody and placed tUe dismembered parts snd the trunk in the valise. Robbery was not the motive of the crime, as he ( had anspje megtjg on which to live, j