DEATH SENTENCE ON A BOY.
CRIMINAL IN SOCKS AND KNiatEß>S<. 'PARTIS, ,x August 11. . Marcel Rouches, a boy 'of 16, wearing knickers and socks,' was sentenced to death at the Seine Assize Courts. Om .March 2 he had gone to a room occupied by Mme. Bre, a widow living m the Rue Flatters, who was .his aunt, and demanded money. He knew that , she had received the day before her monthly pension of 245. from the. Assistance Publique. This was her sole income. When she refused him he attempted to take her purse, and then, as she resisted, he seized a poker and beat her about the. head, till she died. He had previously been a bad boy. At the [trial he showed no , remorse. Tlie jury, after 20 minutes'" deliberation, found him guilty of murder arid robbery without extenuating circumstances.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12883, 2 October 1912, Page 5
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141DEATH SENTENCE ON A BOY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12883, 2 October 1912, Page 5
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