FULL TEXT: Paris, Jan. 13. – At Caen
yesterday Robert De Courvigny was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for
having killed his father, Baron De Courvigny, at the instigation of his mother.
The latter was sentenced to death. The evidence given at the trial showed that
the baron stopped the credit of his drunken wife, and the latter and her son,
in the presence of a depraved fifteen-year old maid servant, subsequently
planned to murder him. After making futile attempts to poison the baron's food the
baroness plied her son with absinthe, and selected a dark avenue in which the
son was to shoot his father dead. The son carried out his part of the scheme,
and afterwards the baroness sought to incriminate a respectable farmer. The
baroness and her son made full confessions of their guilt, but neither showed
the slightest contrition.
[“A Fiendish Woman. Son Prompted To Kill
His Father.” The West Australian (Perth), The West Australian (Perth, Australia),
Jan. 15, 1912, p. 12]
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