GALLOWS DISMANTLED
FIRST TIME IN FIFTY YEARS LONDON, May 12. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail -says that owing to M. Doumer’s death, the guillotine, erected outside Sante Prison, has been dismantled, for the first time in 50 years, without claiming a victim. The authorities were about to lead to the guillotine Eugene Boyer, convicted of murdering an aged woman, when the Ministry of the Interior granted a postponement of the execution on the ground that M. Doumer was entitled to grant a reprieve, but was unable to exercise his prerogative, as he was unconscious. The new President will be entitled to consider the case, but Boyer is now unlikely to be executed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21649, 20 May 1932, Page 7
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114GALLOWS DISMANTLED Otago Daily Times, Issue 21649, 20 May 1932, Page 7
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