AFTER SEVENTEEN YEARS.
» PEASANT ACQUITTED OF MURDER. Bj TtlecraDh-l'ress Associalion-Oopyrlrhl (Rec. July 11, 11.25 p.m.) Paris, July 11. A peasant named Charles Midland, formerly of Ambrisson, has been awarded £1200 as compensation for seventeen years' penal servitude in French Guinea for murdering a neighbouring farmer. The confession of another convict had resulted in Midland's acquitlal. Midland is now 16 years old. His wife throughout believed him innocent. There was a tremendous ovation in Court when his innocence- was announced. The acquittal has been placarded in the Ambrisson district, and inserted in the newspapers.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1177, 12 July 1911, Page 7
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93AFTER SEVENTEEN YEARS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1177, 12 July 1911, Page 7
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