MURDERER’S FATE
WEIDEMANN’S HEAD FALLS
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PARIS, June 17.
Weidemann was guillotined to-day. The, execution took place outside thegate of the Versailles prison. The execution was welched from a pnnsi I-r:i’ le distance, by more than 10(10 people, including the mother of one of Weidemann’s victims.' Weidemann died without uttering a word. ' \
A wedding which was to have been held in the Springdale Church, Waitoa, the other day, did not take place owing to the non-appearance of the bridegroom. Everything had been arranged for the ceremony, including the wedding breakfast, and the bride and her relatives and friends were in attendance. Rev. H. B. Hughes, Presbyterian minister at Thames, made a special trip to marry the couple. After a wait of two hours for the bridegroom, whose whereabouts are unknown, it was decided to postpone the ceremony and the company dispersed. As far as is known the bridegroom has s no relatives in the, Dominion, s
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 June 1939, Page 7
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