BOY MURDERER
SENTENCED TO TWENTY YEARS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. PARIS, March 4. Marcel Rednreau. the French hoy murderer, has been sentenced to imprisonment for twenty years. On October 1 of last year Marcel Redureau. a farm boy. fifteen years old, while working at a wine press, quarrelled with Mabit. bis employer, in the village of Ba.slerige. near Nantes, and seizing an axe slashed Mabit’s throat. He then rushed into the kitchen and murdered Mabit's wife, and the maid, as well as Mabit's mother, who was asleep in tlie bedroom. Finally he murdered three of Mabit's children, a fourth, aged four years, being overlooked. Redureau then quietly retired to bed and was arrested next morning. He confessed to all seven murders.
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Southland Times, Issue 17595, 6 March 1914, Page 5
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120BOY MURDERER Southland Times, Issue 17595, 6 March 1914, Page 5
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