BANISHED FOR LIFE
PENALTY FOR MURDERER OF POLICE OFFICER £2,000 DAMAGES FOR WIDOW United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 9.45 a.m. PARIS, Thursday. Joseph Philiponnet, who murdered M. Bayles, chief of the Police Records Department, was sentenced to penal servitude for life. The widow and children of Bayles have been awarded £2,000 damages. While M. Bayles, Chief of the Paris Police Records Department, was climbing a dark staircase in his office at the Balais de Justice, on September 16 he met a man armed with a revolver, who shot him in the head, heart and back. The murderer was escaping when he was seized by three inspectors. He said his name was Joseph Philiponnet, but he refused to give any explanation of his action except that he acted after an expert report by M. Bayles. “I killed a dishonest man,” he said. M. Bayles was a famous scientist. He organised the anthropometrical service of the police force.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 873, 17 January 1930, Page 9
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