RED FLOWERS BLOOM
ON GRAVES OF GUILLOTINED
PLANTED BY FRENCH WOMEN'S SOCIETY.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPSRIGHT.) (SXBKSX SUN CADLBO
(Received 26th January, noon.) PARIS, 25th January. Ked flowers blooming on the grave ot a guillotined murderer at Toulon re vealed to the police the existence of a secret society with the object of honouring executed criminals, as martyrs to man s brutality. The French law forbids any trark on toe grave of the guillotined. The members of ithe society are exclusively women believing capita] punishment- to be barbarous. The murderer .thus honoured shot dead, with a revolver two policemen. His grave bore with the society s inscription the words- "He died bravely."
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1924, Page 7
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111RED FLOWERS BLOOM Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1924, Page 7
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