FEARFUL MURDER.
Husband Scalded to Death
While Asleep.
WIFE AND MOTHER-IN-LAW.
PARIS, October 25. Yet another monstrous murder has been perpetrated, this time at Montpellier, where Jean Tourel, a former municipal employee, was scalded to death by his wife and mother-in-law. The elder woman disapproved of her son-in-law having any control over the family's business affairs so she persuaded his wife to 'prepare a cauldron of boiling water which was thrown over Tourel while he was asleep. The man died quickly from shocking burns. The wife was sentenced to imprisonment for life. Her mother, in view of her age, was sentenced to 10 years' solitary confinement.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 253, 26 October 1933, Page 7
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