FRENCH MYSTERY.
A WOMAN’S DEATH
SON ACCUSED OF MATRICIDE STRANGE STORY OF CRIMEUnited Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyrigiu (Australian Press Association.) PARIS, Oct, 17. There is interest in the coming trial of George Pape, who has been charged with matricide. Owing to the gruesome provisions of the French penal code, a prisoner condemned of patricide or matricide is led to the guillotine,, naked, save for a shirt, his head being concealed in a black mask. He stands on the scaffold while the sheriff reads the death sentence in n loud voice. He is then guillotined. The story of the crime- is one of the strangest. Pape was going out with his stepfather, but suddenly returned to speak to Lis mother. Thus lie v/as apparently the last person to see his mother alive. When the stepfather returned, ho .-found the door locked. He broke in and. discovered his wife strangled, upright, but dead. The prosecution says marks on tho neck show that the son strangled his mother. Tho defence claims that- the marks on the neck were really the scars of an old burn. The defence also insists that it is an extraordinary fact that the door was locked from the inside when tho body was discovered.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10721, 19 October 1928, Page 5
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207FRENCH MYSTERY. Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10721, 19 October 1928, Page 5
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