FRENCH GIRL SHOT.
FATAL PRACTICAL JOKE. VICTIM DEFENDS HIMSELF. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, Feb. 21. Two girl friends of a farmer named Tixier, who knew that he was going home along a lonely road late at night, decided to play a prank on him. Dressed as men they jumped out from a hedge and shouted: "Hands up. Tixier was carrying a sporting gun, and thinking that ho was attacked by real bandits, he fired and killed one of the girls. A magistrate discharged Tixier on the ground that the man had believed himself to bo acting legitimately in selfdefence.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18950, 23 February 1925, Page 9
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104FRENCH GIRL SHOT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18950, 23 February 1925, Page 9
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