A FRENCH PARRICIDE
PARIS, January 13.
Baron Decouvrigny's eon Robert wa( sentenced to 20 years' servitude at Caen for ehooting his father dead at hi* mother's instigation. The mother wa4 sentenced to death. The Baron stopped the drunken Baroness'6 credit. Tha murder was then planned in the presence of a depraved 15-year maidservant. After futile attempts to poison the food, the Baroness plied her eon with absinthe, and selected a dark avenue for the ambush. She afterwards sought to incriminate a respectable farmer. The mothej and son made full confessions, and showed u.st the slightest contrition.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3018, 17 January 1912, Page 25
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96A FRENCH PARRICIDE Otago Witness, Issue 3018, 17 January 1912, Page 25
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