AMIENS MURDERER GUILLOTINED IN SIGHT OF CROWD OF 3,000
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association) BARIS, Wednesday. For the first time in 40 years a public execution was caried out at Amiens. A crowd of 3,000 spectators assembled outside the prison to see the execution of Serge Gambler, aged 10. for the murder of two women, aged 70. Only yesterday the youth expressed his repentance and was baptised. A priest attended him from the tune he awoke this morning. Before he left his cell Gambler wrote letters to his sweetheart and his grandmother. He then lighted a cigarette and walked boldly to the guillontine.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 600, 28 February 1929, Page 9
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103AMIENS MURDERER GUILLOTINED IN SIGHT OF CROWD OF 3,000 Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 600, 28 February 1929, Page 9
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