HONOURING A MURDERER.
AMAZING WOMEN'S SOCIETY. AN APACHE WHO KILLED GENDARMES. "HE DIED BRAVELY." (Received 2.30 p.m.) PARIS, January 2oT Pod flowers blooming on the gTavc of a fruillotiucd murderer revealed to the police the existence of a secret society whose object is honouring executed criminals as martyrs to man's brutality. The French law forbids any mark on the grave of a guillotined person. Members of the society (exclusively women) believe capital punishment barbarous. The murderer thus honoured shot, with a revolver, two policemen. The grave bore the society's inscription, ''Died bravely."—(A. and Is.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 22, 26 January 1924, Page 7
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