TRIPLE MURDERS IN FRANCE
Confession Denied By Farmer (Rec. 11 p.m.) DIGNE (Southern France), Nov. 18. Gaston Dominici, a 77-year-old farmer, said in a prison cell today that he had been “forced to enact a comedy” of confession to the murder of the Drummond family, but added: “I am completely innocept.” Dominici made the statement to the gaol director three days after his confession to the triple murder. His son Gustave also claimed that his father was innocent, and that he had accused him of the murder only to escape the “pressure” of the ©olice. The old farmer was formally charged on Tuesday with the triple murder. His 34-year-old son, Gustave, asked by reporters why he sighed the statement accusing his father, replied: “You should know what it means being kept 36 hours without food and drink, and being harassed for four days and three nights while people are trying to put things into your mouth. One becomes quite confused. One becomes really mad.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27201, 19 November 1953, Page 11
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