FRENCHMAN’S TRIAL.
'A STRANGE CRIME
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyrigi it).
PARIS, October 17
There is interest shown in the coming trial of George Pape, who has been charged with matricide.'
Owing to the gruesome provisions of the French penal code, a prisoner Who is condemned of patricide or matricide is led to the guillotine naked, save for a shirt, his head being concealed in a black mask. He stands on the scaffold while the Sheriff reads the death sentence in a loud voice. He is then guillotined. The story of this crime is one of the strangest. Pape was going out with his stepfather, but suddenly he returned to speak with his. mother. Thus, lie' was apparently the last person to see his mother alive. When the stepfather returned, he found the door locked. He broke in and discovered his wife strangled—upright, but dead. The prosecution says that the marks on the neck show that the son strangled his mother. The defence claims that the marks on the neck were really the scars ol an old burn. The defence also insists that it is an extraordinary fact that the door of the death room was locked from the inside when the body was discovered.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1928, Page 5
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205FRENCHMAN’S TRIAL. Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1928, Page 5
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