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Girl Bride Sees Husband Kill Rival by Water Fight
Mrs George Wray Gill, twenty, hid secret marriage to a Loyola law student, while her husband, twenty three, is jailed for killing rival Robert Read afterRead confronted by the couple on Old River Pleasureville. Read drowned or was knocked out, death blamed on blows or submersion. Gill and wife deny testimony. all three are socially prominent.
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Shreveport
George Wray Gill
Loyola University
New Orleans
Robert Read
Centenary College
Mrs. Gill
Pleasureville
Old River
Bob Read
Gill
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H. W. Paul