PARIS RIOTING
OVER MURDER SENTENCE. .United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy right). (Received this day at 8 a.m.) PARIS, June 8. Incensed at what they considered a miscarriage of justice in connection with a murder trial, mobs at Limoges rioted outside the .prison, and desperate conflicts with the police and troops resulted in heavy casualties. Charles Barataud, a wealthy citizen was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life, not death. The populace believed lie escaped because he was wealthy and attacked the gaol. The Republican guard was called out with fixed bayonets. A battalion of infantry came to reinforce them and the outbreak was subdued. The casualties included fifty warders and police, fourteen military ami twenty demonstrators. The market place resembled a battlefield,
The jurymen have since explained hat their verdict was misinterpreted, t was a case of dual murder and they a you red a life sentence on on 9. charge nd desired execution on the other.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1929, Page 5
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