CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
FRENCH PRESIDENT TRUE TO HIS PRINCIPLES. i By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received September 15, 3.33 p.m.) PARIS, September 15. Despite loud demand on the part of tho public that he should allow the law to take its course, President FalJievos, consistent with his principle not to sanction capital punishment, has commuted the death sentence passed on the Parisian murderer, Sollieland. In February last Solielland, a work-; man of Paris, was allowed to take a neighbour’d child, Martha Erbelding, aged twelve years, to an entertainment, saying that his wife was accompanying him. He outraged, strangled, and stabbed the child to tho heart, and left the remains in the panic.- voice ut tne railway station. Later he confessed the crime. „
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6315, 16 September 1907, Page 7
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