Son’s Death Demanded
FATHER CALLS TO JURY
Spartan Plea Fulfilled
{United P.A.—Dy Teleyraph — Copyright) Australian and N.Z. Press Association) f United Service) Received 11.30 a.m. PARIS, Tuesday. GENTLEMEN of the Jury, perform your duty; I demand the death penalty for my boy,” said a woodcutter at the trial of two lads who were charged in the village of Digne, Provence, with murdering an entire family of five.
Alter seeking shelter at a farmhouse for the night, Jules Ughetto and Stephen Mucha shot the farmer, his •wife, two children, and a servant in cold blood. The entire population of the country seethed with fury, and vowed that they would apply lynch law. The court was guarded bv 40 mounted and 70 foot police.
The prosecutor informed the judge that Mucha was five days under 16 years of age when he committed the murders, therefore he was not eligible for the death penalty. Ughetto’s father’s Spartan plea was fulfilled. The son was sentenced to death, and Mucha to the maximum of 20 years’ imprisonment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 771, 18 September 1929, Page 9
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172Son’s Death Demanded Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 771, 18 September 1929, Page 9
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