PENALTY PAID

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1932, Page 5

PENALTY PAID

MURDERER DIES ASSASSINATOR OF M. DOUMER, (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) PARIS, September 14. The Russian, GougolofF, who shot dead the late president of France, M. Doumer, was ' to-day guillotined at dawn. Crowds of people during the evening before paraded the Boulevard Arago, over the spot in front of the Sante prison, where, at the dead of night, the guillotine was erected. Only those furnished with permits witnessed the execution. Gougolff had no warning of. the imminence of his death until half an hour previously. His wife called to pay her usual Tuesday call, but she was refused admission. Gougoloff spent his last night alive, sleeping handcuffed in a cell that he shared with another prisoner, and in which the light was never extinguished. Guogoloff’s counsel, M. Henri Giraud. who entered the prison before dawn, with a Russian priest and interpreter, said that Gougoloff’s wife would claim the assassin’s body.

A great crowd gathered in the vicinity of the prison at midnight, hut only soldiers, police, officials and those connected with the case saw the gruesome scene closely when Gougoloff was guillotined.

GOUGOLOFF’S LAST WORDS. PARIS, September 14. Gougoloff in his last words, said that he was neither a Monarchist nor a Communist, and had nothing against France or M. Doumer. He hoped the child, shortly expected, would be trained to follow hi s principles.

“Forgive me, everyone. Oil Russia, my country!” He died courageously.,