MOTHER’S REMORSE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17909, 13 October 1932, Page 2

MOTHER’S REMORSE

MURDER AND SUICIDE PARIS, August 14. A tragedy of children’s play which ended in a double murder and suicide is reported from Barecourt, near Verdun. Two boys, Marcel Gillet and Hubert Grisel, aged 11, were playing on the banks of the River Aire when Gillet pushed his playmate into the water. Grisel was drowned and Gillet ran crying to his mother and told her the whole story. His mother advised him not to say a word about it. But, when a little later the body of Grisel was recovered from the river, she was overcome by remorse, realising that she had been wrong in telling her little son to hold liis tongue. The affair had a tragic epilogue to-day when young (fillet’s mother led her son to the spot where the drowning had occurred, and after a brief prayer seized her little hoy and jumped with him into the river. Both were drowned. The mother had determined that her little son should pay the penalty of a crime which lie did not realise was that of murder. As atonement for having told him to lie about it, she voluntarily shared with him the punishment of death.