A CONFESSION RETRACTED.
RAG-PICKER'S STORY A CONCOC- ' TION. « By Telegraph—Pross Association—Copyright. Paris, July 24. Dourreau (or Bourreau), tho ragpicker, who at Tours confessed to having murdered the five children of a farmer named Brierre, near Chartres, in 1900, a crime for which Brierro was sentenced to death, tho sentence being afterwards commuted, has retracted. He now declares that h ; s story was concocted—a drunken freak —and because he was tired .of "life.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 878, 26 July 1910, Page 7
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72A CONFESSION RETRACTED. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 878, 26 July 1910, Page 7
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