CHARGE OF MATRICIDE.
FRENCHMAN FOR TRIAL. STORY OF GRUESOME CRIME. Australian and N.Z. Press Association.. PARIS. Oct. 17. Interest is centred upon the -forthcoming trial of George Pape on a charge of matricide. Under the provisions of the French penal code a prisoner condemned for parricide must be led to the guillotine nud© except for a shirt. With his head concealed under a black mask he must stand on the scaffold while the sheriff reads the death sentence in a loud voices. Then lie is guillotined. The story of the crime* is very strange. Pape was going out with his stepfather when suddenly he returned to the house to speak to his inojher. Apparently, therefore, he was the last person to see his mother alive.
When the stepfather returned to the homo he found the front door locked. He broke in and discovered his Mife had been strangled. The prosecution says marks on her neck shoved that tlie son had strangled her.
For the defence it is claimed that the marks really .were scars from an old burn. It is also claimed, to bo an extraordinary fact that the cfoor of the room in which the body was found was locked from the inside.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20081, 19 October 1928, Page 13
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