SIX CHILDREN KILLED
WORKLESS PAINTER AXE AND RIFLE USED FRENCH POLICE CHARGE (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. March 20, 3 p.m.) LONDON, March 19. The Paris correspondent of The Times says that Autun police are seeking a workless painter who, in order to spite his wife, killed with an axe four of his children aged from two to eight years and then met two of his girls aged seven and 11 years respectively at school and took them to a park and shot them. Four children survive.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 21 March 1939, Page 7
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88SIX CHILDREN KILLED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 21 March 1939, Page 7
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