A BOY'S CRIME
An astonishiilg confession was made to the Tpolice ''lay a fifteen-year-old motor-car bandit who was Arrested at Cannes on suspicion. The boy, Gabriel Condat, was caught by a French policeman when escaping from a car-which was found.to have been stolen from ■a M. Teysrenc, of Lodest, near Mcntpellier. ■ His companion, aged seventeen, escaped.- On ■ inquiry at Lodest the Cannes police learned that M. Teysrenc had disappeared. The police then shot a chance question at Condat, shouting: "Why did you kill the owner of the car?" Taken by surprise boy replied: "It was not I but my.friend who killed him. We stopped a motorist on the road," he went on, "and asked him to help us repair our motor-cycle. We ■ had placed a man's . car while my friend went into the shed with him. A moment or two later I heard a revolver shot, and my friend came out and said that he had, shot the" man dead while he was bending down over the motor-cycle; He also stole a bundle of bank notes from the man's pocketbook. We then' went off in the dead man's car."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 78, 1 April 1936, Page 17
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189A BOY'S CRIME Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 78, 1 April 1936, Page 17
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