The War.
—-.— —• [PT BLBCTRIO riLI6RAPU--COPrRIBHI.J [PKil PKESB PARIS, December 3. A prisoner in charge of a sergeant of the gendarmes endeavoured to escape from the Bordeaux express. He climbed the window to the footboard. The sergeant and a desperate struggle ended in both, 'being thrown to the ground and kill ed. A court-martial at Lille condemned a trooper named Benzeboc toi death for flinging his cap at thepresiident of the court-martial. Tne man's •motive was a desire to share in the imprisonment of a friend who was sentenced to ten years for throwing a shoe at a. surgeon in a penitentiary. _ A supposed American multi-mil-lionaire, named 1 Bishop, committed suicide with a revolver, towing to an incurable disease. v _ '-"I t V t / :
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 December 1911, Page 3
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123The War. Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 December 1911, Page 3
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