BATTLE OUTSIDE PRISON
CROWD FURIOUS ABOUT SLAYER’S PENALTY HEAVY CASUALTIES FOLLOW (United Service) PARIS, Saturday. j A mob of people who were incensed j at what they considered to have been j a miscarriage of justice at a murder | trial at Limoges rioted outside the ! prison. Desperate conflicts with the I police and troops resulted in heavy | casualties. Charles Barataud, a wealthy citizen, had been found guilty of the murder and sentenced to imprisonment for life, not condemned to death. Believing accused had escaped the guillotine because he was wealthy, the mob attacked the gaol. The Re publican Guard was called out with fixed bayonets, and a battalion of infantry reinforced them. The outbreak was then subdued. The casualties included 50 warders and policemen, 14 soldiers and 20 of the demonstrators. The market-place resembled a battlefield. Thq jurymen have since explained that their verdict was misinterpreted. It was a dual murder, and they had favoured a life sentence on one charge only, and desired the execution of accused on the other.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 685, 10 June 1929, Page 9
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