GALLOWS DISMANTLED.
Unexpected Reprieve for French Murderer. LONDON, May 12. The Paris correspondent of the “ Daily Mail ” say's that owing to M. Doumer’s death, the guillotine, erected outside Sante Prison, has been dismantled, for the first time in 50 years, without claiming a victim. The authorities were about to lead to the guillotine Eugene Boyer, convicted of murdering an aged woman, when, the Ministry of the Interior granted a postponement of the execution, on the ground that M. Doumer was entitled to grant a reprieve, but was unable to exercise his prerogative, as he was unconscious.
The ne\v President will be entitled to consider the case, but Boy’er is now unlikely to be executed.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 456, 18 May 1932, Page 1
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