WOMAN CONDEMNED
, (Rec. January 31, 7.20 p.m.) Paris, January 31. The spectacle of a woman, barefooted, with face veiled and clad only in a shirt, walking to the scaffold, will be witnessed at Orleans, unless the President intervenes and reprieves Augustine Agogne, who strangled her mother in order to succeed to the latter’s share of a farm. French law maintains the medieval custom specially punishing matricide. A male offender always goes to the scaffold clad only in a shirt, but no woman has been executed in France since the ’eighties, so there is some question as to whether Agogne’s unnatural crime will bring her to the guillotine.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 109, 1 February 1930, Page 11
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107WOMAN CONDEMNED Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 109, 1 February 1930, Page 11
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