Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1914 — Reprieve Angers a Murderer. [ARTICLE]

Reprieve Angers a Murderer.

An unusual scene was enacted at Versailles (France) jail recently, when the public prosecutor went to inform two murderers that their death' sentence had been commuted to penal servitude for life. One, Joseph Brugen, received the news joyfully, but the other, Louis Louis, exclaimed: “What, you asked the jury for my head, and now you tome to tourture me by a reprieve? I do not want it; I must have liberty or the guillotine. I won’t go to the galleys at any price.” So saying he rushed upon the public prosecutor, seized him by the throat and endeavored to strangle him. The keeper had great difficulty in releasing the official and putting the convict in a strait jacket