SHIRKED GUILLOTINE
ELECTROCUTION PREFERRED BY MURDERER CRIME IN FRANCE Reed. 11.10 a.m. PARIS, Wednesday. A shrivelled blackened body was discovered dangling on a high-tension cable on th e Paris-Orleans railwav. The victim proved to be a soldier narned Simon, whom the police had searched owing to the murder of a taxi-driver. Simon left a letter admitting the crime, and then climbed the pole, preferring electrocution to the guillontine.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1074, 11 September 1930, Page 9
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