MAN KILLED MOTHER
Death Sentence In France
(Rte. 11 p.m.) PERIGUEX (Western France), November 19
A French farmer was sentenced to death and his mistress to hard labour for life in Periguex today for burning the man’s 70-year-old mother to death in the farmhouse fireplace. The couple, dubbed the “demon lovers" by the French press, are Robert Pons, aged 56, and Yvette Revssett, aged 26. They killed the elderly Mrs Pons in March, 1958, because she dominated the fanner’s life and was trying to break up their relationship. The Judge decided yesterday against hearing testimony from Yvette’s six-year-old son. JeanPaul, whom the police said had told them he saw his “granny being dragged struggling into the fire with a cloth over her head. Pons broke down and wept just before the jury went out. 'Members of the jury,” he sobbed, 1 never wanted to kill niy mother. I ask her to forgive me. The jury returned its; verdirt 40 minutes later. Pons will be guillotined unless he makes a successful appeal
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29058, 21 November 1959, Page 13
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