BOY MURDERERS
DECOY A BANK MESSENGER. By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright. Paris, October 2. Two boys of I' 6 and 17 decoyed a bank messenger to a house in the Belville quarter by means of a forged bill, murdiered him with a knife and flat iron, and robbed his satchel of £l7O and escaped. Desmurest and Lissier, when arrested, made cynical confessions which showed they had had two days' and two nights' dissipation squandering the proceeds.
A PREMEDITATED CRIME. HOW THE MURDER WAS COMMITTED. Received 3, 10.25 p.m. Paris, October 3. Desmurest and Lissier purchased gold watches and tipped a cliaffeur with 50 francs just prior to being arrested in a Parisian hotel. Thev admit that they had long premeditated the crime. They stabbed Andre in the neck while Andre was filling in entries of a forged bill and then gagged and bound the dead man. They were under the belief that thev would Ibe merely confined to a reformatory until they reached the age of 21 years'for committing the crime.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 150, 4 October 1910, Page 5
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170BOY MURDERERS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 150, 4 October 1910, Page 5
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