MURDER AVENGED
FATHER SHOOTS SON-IN-LAW. ACQUITTED IN COURT. (United Press Assn.— Telegraph Copyright.) Paris, December 7. The trial is proceeding of a Belgian, Lussoir, who waited nine years to avenge his daughter’s murder. He is charged with killing Albert Vandervost, his daughter’s husband. Lussoir, in a statement from the dock, calmly justified the murder, saying he was completely sane and responsible for the act. The judge observed: But your son-in-law expiated his crime. Lussoir rejoined that he could only expiate it with his own life. In 1925 Vandervost shot his wife dead after she had obtained a divorce and he was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, which on an appeal was reduced to seven years. Lussoir vowed vengeance. He made six visits to Pans and finally tracked Vandervost to an hotel in April, waited for two days at the doorway and shot him dead. Lussoir was acquitted after his daughter had given evidence regarding the extreme cruelty of Vandervost towards her sister, describing how her father swore revenge over the dead body of his daughter.
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Southland Times, Issue 22450, 10 December 1934, Page 7
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