SHOCKING CRIME IN PARIS.
Paris, December 7
Dacombe, the Anarchist, prior to shooting Ducret and his wife, put them to amazing torture. He entered Dncret’s chamber at night and taunted him with betraying him to the police. He then announced that he would kill both ol them, also their child. He compelled the Ducrets to go to bed where, he said, it would be more convenient to kill them. Meanwhile, he sang snatches of ribald songs and forced Ducret to toss a coin adding : “If it is tails I will kill you immediately ; if heads at dawn.” It was heads. Throughout the uigbt be terrorised the couple with a revolver and at six o’clock iu the morning he fired a fusiiade. The discharge extinguished the lamp aud shots struck Ducret in the throat aud chest. His wife fell flat aud escaped, Pacombe left the house uncaptured.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1037, 10 December 1912, Page 3
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146SHOCKING CRIME IN PARIS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1037, 10 December 1912, Page 3
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