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Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13049, 8 March 1911, Page 1

Probably the most extraordinary case on record of a man who wished to ba executed is that of a Quebec ' citizen who passed himself off as a I murderer for whom the police were searching. When the matter was investigated it was found that the self-1 j accused man had nothing whatever to ido with the crime. "No," he said, ; "you're right. I am not the murder- . er, but my wife leads me such a miserable lif© at ihome that I thought I would escape from matrimonial wretchedness by getting the Government to, hang me.