UNNATURAL CRIME
STRANGLED HER MOTHER WOMAN MAY GO TO GUILLOTINE PARIS, Jan. 31. The spectacle of a woman, barefooted, with face veiled and clad only in. a shirt, walking to the scaffold, will be witnessed in Orleans, unless the President intervenes aud reprieves Augustine Agogne, who strangled her mother in order to succeed to the latter’s share of a farm. French law maintains the mediaeval custom of especially punishing a matricide. A male offender always goes to the scaffold clad only in his shirt, but no woman has been executed in France since the eighties, so there is some question as to whether Augustine Agogne’s unnatural crime will.bring her to. the guillotine.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17173, 1 February 1930, Page 5
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112UNNATURAL CRIME Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17173, 1 February 1930, Page 5
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