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Show SPURNED STUDENT KILLS DANCER AND . DIES BY OWN HAND Ordered Out' fcy Woman ' When She Learn He Has Wife and Children. New Xork. in 'Argentine medical student wfcose romance with Maria Monterp, Spanjsh dancer,.. was broken off -wbejj she "found ha haO'awlfe and-fou .chU'dreu in -Paris, died In. City hospitafy-bullet in. .bis, brain; after.be hai sjiqi and killed );be dancer danc-er and' then ;tufned the revolver on himself. . '.;....-, . Tfn months 8 go IlJratlo ColumBres, thlrty-Bevenriear-old son of a wealthy iArChtlne planter, met Miss Montcro, who wa twenty-seven, and fell In love wvlib her. Recently the learned he had. a wifa, and four children in Paris and,6rdered blm to leave hecanclng ,stu4lo undnever come back, ; i i t Later ,'he. re'turped,, and' foqeed his way.fni'o her' private apartment at the We8t.,Fifty-8CvenUi street studio.: Aa assistant heard a heated conversation in Spanish and then sevcrai shots. The assistant ran into the Ptreet and ummoned police. They found ' Miss Killed the Dancer. Montero lying dead on the floor, wrapped in a Spanish shawl which, associates said. King Alfonso of Spain had presented to her, one hand clutched over religious medals In a pocket of her dress and her pet ppitz whining at her side. , "Because I Loved Her." Columbres was lying near by, a pistol pis-tol in his hand and a wound In his temple. A policeman bent over him to take the pistol and asked, "Did you do this?" "I shot her because 1 loved her and she wouldn't huve any more to do with me," he said, and lapsed Into unconsciousness. Four letters were found In his pock et one to the police, two to friends and one to the Argentine consul, giving giv-ing directions for the disposal of his body. Miss Montero was a native of Seville, Se-ville, Spain, and a resident of this country since 1022. She first appeared , In New York In Raymond Hitchcock's "Pin-Wheel Revue," and since then In peveral shows here and In Chicago. She was in Douglas Fairbanks' film. "The Gaucho," as a Spanish dancer. Danced Before Royalty. Clippings found In her upartment Indicated she had danced before the king of Sweden and the British royal family, and had appeared In the Fol lies Bergeres and at the Olympla In Paris, and at the Aihambra in London. Lon-don. She had conducted a dancing school for several months. Residents In the West Fifty-fifth street apartment house a-here Colum bres lived said be hud attended a med leal school in Paris before coming here and intended entering Columbia university In the fall. They said he received $350 every three months from relatives in Buenos Aires. |
