ACCUSED OF MURDER.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17586, 15 December 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)

ACCUSED OF MURDER.

BABY THROWN INTO CANAL.

WOMEN DEMAND DEATH.

(From a Correspondent). TOULOUSE, Ootober 20. Count Pierre de Rayssac, a member of a French noble house, was ar-

raigned before the Assize Court here to-day charged with murdering his two-years-old son. The count, whose family owns a large estate near Toulouse, fell in love with Josephine Machincot, a pretty young servant in his parents' service. She; bore him a son.. The young mother was dismissed at

once and Count Pierre de Rayssac married the daughter of a wealthy local family. Josephine wrote to the father's parents appealing for aid, and a rendezvous was fixed at Toulouse Station for the next day. Instead, however, of the grandmother, it was the father who appeared. He is alleged to have persuaded the mother to hand the child over to him to place it in an institution. Instead of doing so he drove the

child away in his motor-car and, on ■his.own confession, threw it into the icy waters of the canal after having stripped it naked. -, • Outside the court to-day a dense crowd, including many women, shouted "Kill him! Kill/him!" and the police had-the greatest difficulty in keeping it in check.