PUBLIC EXECUTION.
UNUSUAL SIGHT AT AMIENS.. LARGE CROWD ATTENDS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) PARES, Feb. 26. For the finst Time for 40 yearns, a public execution was carried out at Amiens. A crowd of 3000 agsemllbed outside the prison to see the execution of Serge Gamhier, aged 19, for the murder of" two women aged 70. Gamhier. only yesterday, expressed his repentance and was baptised:.. A priest attended him as soon as he awakened to-day. . The youth, before reaving the ceJl, wrote letters to his sweetheart and his grandmother. Lighting a cigarette, lie waiikec! up boldly to the guillotine.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 February 1929, Page 5
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