PARIS EXECUTION.
Ghastly Scene Witnessed by Large Crowds. PBENCH MURDERER'S END. (Received 11 a.m.) PABIS, December 27. Three thousand people, many of them Christmas revellers in evening dress, witnessed the public execution for the murder of a Paris jeweller of Georges Gauche*, the drug-saturated 20-year-oid son of an aristocratic family.
The guillotine was erected outside .La Sante prison.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 306, 28 December 1931, Page 7
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