NEGRO RUNS AMOK
MASTER’S WIFE KILLED.
(United Press Assn—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7.40 p.m.) Paris, January 21. A negro named Debats, infuriated because his master, M. Deschamps, a former colonial official, attempted to dissuade him from marrying, allegedly ran amok with a knife, killing the wife of M. Deschamps and seriously injuring M. Deschamps. « The negro barricaded himself m M. Deschamps’ chateau and took down poisoned arrows from the walls, with which he kept the gendarmes at a distance until struck down by a bullet wound in the leg. Peasants attempted to lynch Debats, whom the police rescued in a seriously injured condition.
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Southland Times, Issue 22487, 23 January 1935, Page 7
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