PROTECTED HIS MOTHER
DRUNKEN FATHER KILLED.
YOUTHFUL SON ACQUITTED. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) PARIS. Feb. 23.
A 15-year-old boy, Jean Benna, was charged at "Versailles with murdering his father. He pleaded that the latter, in a drunken frenzy, threatened to kill his mother. Jean therefore stabbed his father to death with a knife. The youth was acquitted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18334, 26 February 1923, Page 7
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