EXECUTION STAYED
GUILLOTINE DISMANTLED. RESPITE FOR MURDERER. LONDON, Alay 12. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail says that owing to M. Doumcr’s death, the guillotine, erected outside Santc Prison, has been dismantled, for tho first time in 50 years, without claiming a victim. The authorities were about to lead to tho guillotine Eugene Boyer, convicted of murdering an aged woman, when the Ministry of the Interior <’ , rantcd a postponement of the execution, on tho ground that M. Doumer wr. entitled to grant a reprieve, but was unable to exercise his prerogative, as he was unconscious. Tho new President will bo entitled to consider the case, but Boyer is now unlikely to be executed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 117, 20 May 1932, Page 7
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114EXECUTION STAYED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 117, 20 May 1932, Page 7
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