JUSTICE LONG DELAYED.
SELF-ACCUSED MURDERER. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright, j (Per Press Association.)
Received July 23, at 2.40 p.m. Paris, July 22. Bout-roan states that lie went to the farm begging, and he received bread and was allowed to sleep in a baru. Early in the morning he stabbed four children and killed a fifth with an axe, and after a fierce struggle he stabbed Brierre and decamped. Before confessing Bourreau tried to commit suicide, but only inflicted a millet wound in an arm.
[Brierre was charged with the murder of his children and condemned _to death, but was afterwards reprieved.] Received July 25, at 9.45 a.m. Paris, July 2!. B.inrreau has retracted his coiifc-Hon and declares that he was tired of lii'e and concocted the story in a drunken freak.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10515, 25 July 1910, Page 4
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130JUSTICE LONG DELAYED. Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10515, 25 July 1910, Page 4
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