THE DEAD HAND
TRAGIC DEATH OF A GENDARME. By Teleeraph—Preßß Association-Copyright "Tlmoa" and Sydney "Sun" Services. Berne, Juno 7. Some peasants found the body of a man who had committed suicide lying on a forest path in Geneva, with a Browning revolver clutched in his lifeless hand, tho fingers being still on tho trigger. A gendarmo who had been sent by tho authorities to examino tho corpse touched this hand, and tho revolver went off, tho gendarmo baing shot in tho stomach and killed.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2171, 9 June 1914, Page 5
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84THE DEAD HAND Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2171, 9 June 1914, Page 5
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