SON MURDERS FATHER.
"HIGH" LIFE HONOR. A DEPRAVED BARONESS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 13. 5.5 p.m. Paris, January 13. Baron Decouvrignes, son of Baron Robert Decouvringcs, has been sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude at Caen for shooting his father dead at his mother's instigation. The mother was sentenced to death. The Baron had stopped his drunken Baroness' credit. The murder was then planned in the presence of a depraved fifteen-year-old maid. After futile attempts to poison his food the Baroness plied her son with absinthe, and selected a dark avenue for an ambush. Afterwards site sought to incriminate a respectable farmer. Mother and son made a full confession, but showed not the slightest contrition.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 188, 15 January 1912, Page 5
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115SON MURDERS FATHER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 188, 15 January 1912, Page 5
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