PUBLIC EXECUTION
YOUTHFUL MURDERER GOES TO GUILLOTINE (Unltad Press Asssclntion—By Klaotrla Telegraph--Copyright.) (Received February 27, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, February 26. For the first time for forty years, a public execution was carried out at Amiens. A crowd of 3000 spectators assembled outside the prison to see the execution of Serge Gambier, aged 19 years, for the murder of two women agdd seventy. Gambier only yesterday expressed repentance and was baptised. The priest attended him as soon as he awakened to-day. The youth before leaving the cell wrote letters to his sweetheart and grandmother. He then lighted a cigarette and walked up boldly to the guillotine.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18201, 28 February 1929, Page 9
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105PUBLIC EXECUTION Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18201, 28 February 1929, Page 9
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