PLUNGED INTO COPPER
FRENCH CONVICT'S DEATH’ United Press Association—Bj Electric Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, January 20. Despondent because he learned that his wife had obtained a divorce Regis Londeau Modee, a prisoner in the gaol at Puydedome, became desperate when the custody of the children was awarded to the wife instead of his mother as he hoped. He ended a seven years’ sentence by plunging head first into a copper in which 40 gallons of skilly was boiling for the convicts’ dinner.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20013, 22 January 1935, Page 5
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80PLUNGED INTO COPPER Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20013, 22 January 1935, Page 5
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