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Show STRANGE CASE OF PARRICIDE. Inhuman Act Committed in French Dependency of Algeria. Quite extraordinary is the parricide which is reported from Algiers, tho capital of the French dependency of Algeria. Not very far from that town dwelt an old man, upwards of 112 years of age, with three of his sons, the eldest of whom is 75, while the youngest was to him, at least, a juvenile juve-nile of 65 summers. The three sons felt aggrieved because their father had not gone over to the majority and left his property to them. He was, however, still hale and hearty, so they frequently exhorted him to divide his estate between them, a cool proposal which he naturally enough Btoutly declined de-clined to entertain. A few evenings ago, as the venerable patriarch was returning homeward with a mule laden with dates, his eldest son went lout to meet, and after confronting him with an ultimatum which he rejected with contempt, pulled out a pistol and shot him through the heart. The mur-dersr mur-dersr and his brothers then took flight, but they were captured after a hot chase. They would inevitably have been lynched if the gendarmes had not strained every nerve to protect them. |