MISTAKEN CLEMENCY.
F » p A PARIS FIEND ESCAPES THE GALLOWS. DESPITE DEMANDS OF THE PUBLIC. Received Sept. 15, 3.33 p.m. Paris, September 14 .■: Despite a loud public demand to allow 8 the law to take its course, President Falliercs, consistent with his principle, b will not sanction capital punishment, ' and has commuted the death sentence I on the Parisian murderer, Soleillauds. ' [The crime for which Soleillauds, a ; Paris workman, richly earned the death ; penalty was a diabolical one, committed i early in February last. He obtained [ permission to take a neighbour's child, Martha Erbelding, aged 12, to an enter- [ tainment, saying his wife was accompanying them. He outraged and then stabbed the child to the heart, and left the remains in the parcel office at a ' railway station. • Later lie confessed.]
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 16 September 1907, Page 2
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131MISTAKEN CLEMENCY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 16 September 1907, Page 2
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