RUTHLESS MURDER
FATHER DEMANDS DEATH PENALTY. AGAINST HIS SON, (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 11 25. a.m.) PARIS, Sept, 17.’ “General of the jury, perform your duty. L demand a death penalty for my boy,” said a wood-cutter, at the trial of two lads, charged in the village of Digne Province with murdering an entire family of • live, after seeking shelter at a farmhouse for the night. Jules Ughetto and Stephen Mucha shot a farmer, his wife, two children and a servant in cold blood.
The entire population of the country were seethed with fury and vowed they would apply the lynch law. The court was guarded by lorty mounted and .seventy foot police. The Prosecutor informed the Judge that Mucha was five days under sixteen when he committed the murders, and therefore, he was not eligible for a death penalty. Ughetto’s father’s spartan plea was fulfilled. His son! was sentenced to death and Mucha to the maximum of, twenty years.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1929, Page 5
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