German Shoots Korean Wife and British Rival The "eternal triangle" claimed the lives of a German decorator, his Korean ex-wife and a British former member of the Shanghai Municipal Police on Monday morning when the former husband fatally shot the two others at No. 1181 Bubbling Well Road, comer of Seymour Road, and then turned the pistol upon himself, Mrs. Lubott Wessels, the ex-wife, and. Mr. Donald Burion had been Slaying at the flat for three days. Yesterday morning at o'clock, Mr. H.C. Wessels, wrought-iron craftsman and ex-husband of Mrs. Wessels, falled on the couple, as he had done on several previous occasions.
fully aware of the fact that they] ad been living together for some time since the divorce had been obtained through Chinese law, had not, up to yesterday, showed any par-Yeular "sign of objection to the rangement.
Took Tea Together After taking tea together, however suddenly pulled out a pistol an shot the couple, turning it then on himself.
Three shots rang out, in quick succession. A. terrified house-boy ran screaming out of the flat and. neighbours hurried to the scene, They found the two men and the woman lying on the floor, the men inthe small sitting-coom, the woman in the bedroom. Wessels, witha large gunshot wound in his Tight temple, was dead. The two others were breathing.
'Burton and Mrs, Wessels were only' partially dressed and they were lying in big pools of blood when the authorities arrived. One bullet had apparently passed through the body of the woman and then through the bed on which she had been reclining.
"Both "Mra, Wessels and Burton, who were still alive, though sinking rapidly, told the authorities that they had been shot by Wessels after they had taken tea together.
Two Die in Hospitat Neighbours summoned a Fire Brigade "ambulance, which took the Three to the Country Hospital. Mrs. Wessels died a few. minutes after admission from a wound in the Tegion of the heart. Burton lingered for nearly an hour and talked in" coherently {0 attendants most of this ime. "He had been shot in the throat, the bullet leaving by the shoulder, and it was not possible to save his tite "A. AS calibre Colt automatic was the weapon used in the shooting and it was discovered. during the day that Wessels had stolen the weapon from a friend of his who is a member of the Specials of the Shangha Municipal Police.
Mr. and Mrs, Wessels and Burton were former business partners, Burton having become interested in the Wessels wrought-iron shop about two years ago, When he resigned from the Municipal Police after some six years service. He had joined the in October, 1926, from Scot Little fg known about Mr. Wessels' antecedents save that he came to Shanghai, apparently direct from Ger many, ten oF eleven years ago. He was acquainted with a large number of people but was not particularly well known to any but a very few.
'A few months ago, when Mr. and Mrs, Wessels became' estranged, Bur~ ton' and. Mrs. Wessels started a Aecorating business of their own, in Bubbling Well Road near Hart Roa while Wessels continued separately. Both firma produced artistic work in metal, leather and wood. It was said {that the Burton-Wessels concern was hot financially successful and that it abandoned the wrought-iron work Soon after the shop had opened.
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