FRENCHMAN'S CRIME
MURDER OF MISTRESS EXILE TO DEVIL'S ISLANQ (Beceived 12th November, 11 a.m.). PABIS, 11th November. \ Jean Houyet, a young multimillionai?.*'. bachelor, was sentenced to twelve years?.imprisonment on Devil's Island, followed by twenty years ' banishment, f <HJ murdering Paulette Eobida, his mistress, in a taxicab on 2nd' April in % fit of jealousy. Houyet gave evidence that the jolting of thp car1 prevented his taking his own life. He added confidentially; to the Judge: "You have no idea ho-w; hard it, is to shoot oneself .J'
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 116, 12 November 1931, Page 13
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86FRENCHMAN'S CRIME Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 116, 12 November 1931, Page 13
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