FATHER’S REVENGE
FOR MURDER OF DAUGHTER. AFTER WAITING NINE YEARS. (Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 12.35 p.m.) Paris, December 7. The trial is proceeding of a Belgian named Lussoir, who waited nine years to avenge his daughter’s murder. He is charged with killing Albert Vandervoust, his daughter’s husband. Lussoir, in a statement from the dock, calmly justified the murder, saying he was completely sane and responsible for the act. The judge observed: “But your son-in-law expiated the crime.” > Lussoir replied that he could only expiate it with his life. In 1925 Vandervoust shot his wife dead after she had obtained a divorce. He was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment, which, on an appeal, was reduced to seven years. Lussoir vowed vengeance and made six visits to Paris. He finally tracked Vandervoust to an hotel in April, and waited two days at the doorway and shot him dead.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4633, 8 December 1934, Page 5
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