BURNED BODY
COFFEE MADE OVER EMBERS. A GRUESOME ATROCITY. PARIS, March 3. A story as gruesome as any Grand Guignol play was. revealed at a trial at Mont Brison. • Two murderers drank coffed, ...which was heated at a fire in which ./they ..had cremated the body of their,.ylctim.Wife#'"Antoine Martin and his sister-in-laW/'lsabelle Martin, were sentenced to death for .the murder of Isabelle’s husband, it. was stated . in evidence tliat-thh-Jiushiipd had given Antoine a lie was discharged, from gaol. Antoine seduced Isabelle. The couple battered the husband’s head while he was asleep and severed an artery., They hid the body in a haystack. Antoine suggested that they should bury the corps in a field of maize, but Isabelle feared that it- u impede-the ploughing.* v She suggested that it would burn it well soaked in petrol. Th e couple dragged the bloodless corpse to the fireplace; filled with . petrol-soaked logs. They burnt it and Antoine pulverised the calcined bones with his sabots. Isabelle placed a saucepan on the embers and made coffee; which they both shared.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1932, Page 3
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