TRAGEDIES.

Grey River Argus, 22 February 1927, Page 5

TRAGEDIES.

A LIVERPOOL HORROR. LONDON, Feb. 20. Mrs George Jones, a. moneylender’s wife, of Liverpool, visited an under taker to arrange for the funeral of a son. The body was left in the husband ’s care, and when she returned she found her husband and the two young er children dead, with their throats cut. A FRENCH SENS AT IQ;?. OLD MAN’S SAD FATE. PARIS, Feb. 20. An appalling story of country folks’ superstition comes from the village of Ballot, where Auguste Grillot, aged 74. became, suspected of sorcery, because he did not attend Mass, and a'so because horses and sheep stampeded at sight of him. Finally he fondled a baby, which died of convulsions the next day.

Later, he was crossing a fie d when some sheep stampeded. The shop herdess cudgelled him and knocked him down, and her brothers then joined in battering him, and they left Gunlot apparently dead. Next morning, Guillot crawled to another far house and begged atten-

tion to his injuries, but the farmers wife savagely attacked him, gouging out one of his eyes with a pitchfork, smashed his nose and pushed vjw unconscious man under a hedge, where he was found three days afterwards. ■ Guillot lingered for three months' and has just died a physical wreck.