TORTURE AND MURDER.
SHOCKING CRIME IN PARIS. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Rec. December 8, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, December 7. Lacombe, the Anarchist, prior to shooting Ducret and his wif«, put them to ainnzing torture. He entered Ducref s chamber at night and taunted him with betraying him to tho police. He then announced that he would kill both of them, also their child. He compelled the Ducrets to go to bed where, he said, it would be'.more convenient to kill them. Meanwhile, he sang snatches of ribald songs and forced Ducret to toss a coin adding: "If it is tails I will kill you immediately; if heads at dawn." It was heads. Throughout tho night ho terrorised the couple with a revolver and at six o'clock in the morning he fired a fusilade. The discharge extinguished the lamp and shots struck Ducret in the . throat and chest. His wife fell fiat and escaped. Laconibe left the houso uncaptured. . ■ i ■' ,
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1618, 9 December 1912, Page 7
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159TORTURE AND MURDER. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1618, 9 December 1912, Page 7
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