GHOULS’ PARADE
HUGE CROWD SEES PUBLIC EXECUTION IN FRANCE KEPT BACK BY HOSES PARIS, Saturday. A message from Marseilles says 1,500 troops and police were necessary to control the crowd which had gathered to witness the guillotining outside the prison of a Corsican named Griffaut. With his confederates the condemned man had attacked and killed a bank messenger, whom they robbed of £3,200.
The fire brigade used hoses on the crowd from trees and the roofs of houses.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 975, 19 May 1930, Page 9
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78GHOULS’ PARADE Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 975, 19 May 1930, Page 9
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