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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 28, 1989
Ukery, Supreme Couth,
THOUGHT
HE
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WAS
TO DIE--REPRIEVED
"I Will
Prove My Innocence
PARIS, JUNE 16.
ROGER MILLION, ACCOM-
PLICE OF EUGEN WEIDMANN, GERMAN
:
MASS MURDERER, CRIED AS MAITRE GERAUD, HIS COUNSEL, ENTERED HIS CELL TO-NIGHT:
"Don't tell me! Don't tell me! I know what you have come for. You have come to tell me that I must die on the guillotine."
"Not at all," said Maitre Geraud, ""What made you think that?”
"Because through the open win- .dow of my cell I can hear the radio set of someone living near the pri- son," he said, "and this morning I heard it stated that you had been called to see the President of the Republic."
SENTENCE COMMUTED
Maitre
Geraud then told him that the President, M. Lebrun, had ordered his reprieve. His sentence has been commuted to a term of
ROOSEVELT AIDE TO VISIT POLAND
Washington, To-day.
The Postmaster-General, Mr. James Farley, who is a close friend of President Roosevelt. and Director of the Democratic Party Organisa- tion, will pay a visit to Poland in July, in response to an invitation of the American Ambassador in Warsaw, Mr. Drexel Biddle.
.
Political quarters in Washington attach political importance to the visit since Mr. Farley will arrive in. Warsaw at the time when the American-Polish loan negotiations are in progress in the Polish capital. Trans-Ocean.
LABOUR COUNCIL ANXIETY OVER FAR EAST
London, To-day,
After the meeting in London yesterday of the National Council of Labour, which discussed
international situation,
i
that Prime Minister
penal servitude for life."
"Well," said Million that gives me a chance now to prove my in- nocence. I will find new facts which will show that I never murdered anyone."
He paused, then added: “What about Weidmann ?”
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"I don't know what decision has executioners come to fetch him on been reached," said Maitre Geraud. Saturday morning.
A few minutes later came the news that Weidmann, accused of killing six people, must die.
Dark-haired, handsome Eugen Weidmann has not been told of his fate. He will not know until his
GREAT
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TO-MORROW
6 P.M.
AT
9.15 P.M.
THE
QUEEN'S
Prices: $4.40, $3.30, $2.20, $1.10
THE
cinema artist, his childhood friend,
Mme. Kleinbach,
German
has bought a plot of ground at the Cemetery des Gonards, in Versail- les, so that Weidmann will have an ordinary grave.
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