THE MONTE CARLO TRAGEDY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8513, 19 August 1907, Page 5

THE MONTE CARLO TRAGEDY.

PARIS, August 16. Since confessing, Goold has been more .composed and sleeps well. He hopes that the authorities will favourably .consider the plea that he acted on an impulse, during .a heated altercation, and while .under the influence of drinkAs Mrs Levin ihas been proved to have been possessed ot ample means, the magistrate at Monte Carlo describes .Coold's confession as a tissue of falsehoods. The Goolds were married through a matrimonial agency, the wife accepting Gaold as a,man of title. Received August IS, 4.L3 p.m. ; PARES, August 17.

Prisoners were placed in Goold's cell since ibe moment of his arrest, with a view .to drawing him (Out in conversation arid reporting to the authorities any admissions that ; he made with xaeard .to .the tragedy. A similar procedure was'-taken in the { case of Mrs Gaold. Received Asgust 18, 128 p.m. LONDON, August 17. Eeuter's Marseilles correspondent yeiiprts that Goold fcas taken a sudden turn for the worse. Tfe? Public Prosecutor has facsen informed that Goold was seized during the night with delirium, screaming that his legs had been cut off and. removed in a bag. He attacked his cell companions, tearing t&eir clothes, and raining blows on their heads.