Paris Police Chief Shot
“I KILLED DISHONEST MAN.”
Aust. Press Assn.-United Service,
PARIS, Sept. 16.
While climbing a dark staircase to his office in the Palais de Justice, M. Bayle, Chief of the Parisian Police Records Department, met a man with a revolver. M. Bayle was shot in the head, heart and back. _ • Tho murderer was escaping when he was seized by three inspectors. He stated that his name was Joseph Phuiponnet but he refused to make an explanation, except that ho stated he had acted after an expert report had been made by M. Bayle. “1 killed a dishonest man," he said. JU. Bayle was a famous scientist and organised the Police Department’s anthropometrical servico.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7018, 18 September 1929, Page 5
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