Charge Of Allowing Child To Die
(Rec. 8.30 p.m.) TOULON, Nov. 7. An examining Magistrate has decided to release on provisional liberty two “Witnesses of Christ” accused of letting their three-month-old daughter die untended, in obedience to the tenets of their sect. The couple, Gaston Debray and his young wife, Jackie, are in a prison hospital after a three weeks’ hunger strike. They are disciples of a small, hunch-backed 51-year-old former postman, Georges Roux, who claims to be Christ and forbids his 4000 followers to accept medical aid. The couple -were detained on September 26 after they presented the dead body of their baby, Joelle, to a prayer meeting of “Witnesses.”
Carbon Monoxide Kills 10.— Ten persons were reported dead in a small Manhattan flat—apparently from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by exhaustion of oxygen in their rooms by a gas hot-water heater. Police °taid the victims were six children and four adults.—New York, November 7. Five Killed in Collision.—All five passengers in a car were killed when a fast goods train hit it on an unguarded level crossing near Hanover. —Berlin, November 7.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27502, 9 November 1954, Page 14
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