AN ANARCHIST’S CRIME.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 88, 9 December 1912, Page 8

AN ANARCHIST’S CRIME.

A CALLOUS CRIMINAL. i,By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Paris, December 8. Lacombe, prior to the shooting, submitted Ducret’s wife to amazing torture. Ho entered tho Ducrets chamber at night, and taunted him with betraying him to the police. He announced that be would kill them both and also their child. He compelled the Ducrets to go to bed, where it was more convenient to kill them. Meanwhile lie sang snatches of ribald songs and forced Ducret to toss a coin, adding, “If it is tails I will kill you immediately, if heads at dawn.” The coin turned a head. Throughout the night lie terrorised the coup.e with a revolver, and at six o’clock fired a fusillade. Tho discharge extinguished the lamp. The shots strutjk Ducret in the throat and chest. His wife fell flat and escaped. Lacombe left the house and has not been captured.

A Paris cablegram of December sth says: An anarchist named Ducret was fatally shot. It is believed his assailant was an anarchist named Lacombe, who was implicated in the Le Saubiias affair, where bandits shot a ticket collector and placed a bomb in tho stationmaster’s office. Ducret was regarded as an informer.