PENALTY FOR MURDER
A BOXER EXECUTED LONDON, October 29. Delfontaine was executed in Wandsworth prison. Mrs Van Der Elst staged another demonstration against the death sentence, and also arranged for a loud speaker in a van to broadost hymns in the neighbourhood of the prison. Mrs Van Der Elst told the crowd that England had executed another insane man. A number of boxers waited outside the prison. His plea that he was " punch drunk " from over-fighting, and not responsible for his action, failed at the Old Bailey, when Raymond Raymond Bousquet, who fought under the name of Delfcntaine, was sentenced to death for shooting a girl. The motive alleged was jenlousy.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22716, 31 October 1935, Page 9
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111PENALTY FOR MURDER Otago Daily Times, Issue 22716, 31 October 1935, Page 9
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