DIVE INTO COPPER
FBISONBB COMMITS SUICIDE.
DESPONDENT AT WIFE’S DIVORCE.
By Telegraph—Press ' Assn.—Copyright Paris, ; Jan. 20.
Despondent because he learned that his wife had obtained a divorce, Regis Rondeau, a model prisoner in the gaol at Puy-de-Dome, became desperate when the custody of the children was awarded the wife instead of his mother, as he hoped, and ended seven years’ sentence by plunging head first into a copper in which 40 gallons of skilly were boiling for the convicts’ dinner.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 January 1935, Page 7
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