PARISIAN SOCIETY MURDER.
.. ■ . TEN YEARS' SOLITARY CONFINE- , JIEXT. By Telegraph-Press Association-CopyTtelit. Paris, December 20. ' ■ Gaston, de Roo, who in April last fatally shot his mother, Mme. Wacho do Roo, a wealthy widow, ,as he resented hor second marriage to a stockbroker, has been sentenced to undergo ten years' . solitary' confinement.
Mme. de Roo, who was sixty years of age, was very popular in Parisian society. A few days before tho crime she was secretly married to an Hungarian banker named Hajot, the father of three children. The event was kept so secret that oven tho porter of the house in which Mme. de Roo resided with her son knew nothing of it; It is believed that M. Gaston .do Koo, who is thirty years old, had a discussion with his mother regarding her second marriage, to which he objected, inasmuch as it involved his leaving the flat to live elsewhere. „ • Just as the house porter was going to bed, the. young man'.appeared, his face disfigured with horror. In a broken voice lie begged the porter to go for a doctor. 1 have just shot at my mother," he said. "I am a wretch; Save her, and arrest me." Madame de Eoo was found lyin" dfcad on the floor. D
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1006, 22 December 1910, Page 7
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209PARISIAN SOCIETY MURDER. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1006, 22 December 1910, Page 7
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