Some thought Brierly was an accomplice, and that he had set the woman on to kill his rival.

A former suitor of the girl's who had killed her and his successful rival?

"And so you decided to kill your rival?"

I can fancy a morbid man feeling he must kill his rival in the solitude and irony of such a scene.

Yes, and killed his rival in a jealous fit.

The mayor does so, but wants the former jail-bird to kill his political rival.

In another storyline, one doctor's nurse found out that he killed his rival and made it look like suicide.

Probably because one or the other trying to kill her rival made a better song.

After a long and gruelling battle Donn killed his rival.

Fionn ordered men up the trees to kill his young rival.