SHOCKING MURDER.
Wife and Mother-in-law Scald Man. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, October 24. Another monstrous murder has been perpetrated, this time at Montpellier, where Jean Tourel, a former municipal employee, was scalded to death by his wife and mother-in-law. The mother-in-law disapproved of her son-in-law having any control of the family’s business affairs and persuaded the wife to prepare a cauldron of boiling water which they' hurled over Tourel while he was asleep. Tourel died quickly from shocking burns. The daughter was sentenced to imprisonment for life and the mother-in-law. in view of her age, to ten years’ solitary confinement.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 903, 26 October 1933, Page 1
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102SHOCKING MURDER. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 903, 26 October 1933, Page 1
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