MURDER ALLEGED
Negro Servant in France (Received January 22. 7. In p.m.) Paris, January 21. A negro named Debats, infuriated because his master, M. Deschamps, a former colonial official, attempted to dissuade him from marrying, allegedly ran amuck with a knife, killing the wife of Deschamps and seriously injuring Deschamps. The negro barricaded hiinseif iu Deschamps’s chateau and took down poisoned arrows from the walls, with which he kept gendarmes at a distance until struck down by a bullet wound in the leg. Peasants attempted to lynch Debats, whom the police rescued seriously injured.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 101, 23 January 1935, Page 9
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94MURDER ALLEGED Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 101, 23 January 1935, Page 9
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