SENTENCE COMMUTED.
Press Association —By Telegraph—Coypnght
LONDON, February 3. (Received February 4, at 9.10 a.m.) Brieve, a fanner who was sentenced to death at Chartres for the murder of his five children in November last year, has had his sentence commuted to penal servitude for life. Many felt >iat the presiding Judge was unfair, while other petitioners emphasised the absence of any confession.
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Evening Star, Issue 11673, 4 February 1902, Page 6
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63SENTENCE COMMUTED. Evening Star, Issue 11673, 4 February 1902, Page 6
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