Show STRANGE CASE OF PARRICIDE inhuman act committed in french dependency of algeria quite extraordinary Is the parricide which Is reported from algiers the capital of the french dependency of algeria not ot very far from that town dwelt an old man upwards of years of age with three of his hi sons the eldest of whom Is 76 75 while the youngest was to him at least a juve jute rifle of 65 summers the three eone sons felt aggrieved because their father had not gone over to the majority and left his property to them he wa was however still hale bile and hearty so to they frequently exhorted him to divide his hi estate between them a cool proposal which he naturally enough stoutly de d 1 dined to entertain A few eyen evenings ings ago go us as the venerable patriarch waa was returning ho homeward with a mul mule laden with dates bis his eldest w soja wn n went out to meet and after confronting afi him with an ultimatum which he rejected with contempt pulled out a pistol and t shot him through the heart the nur derer and his brothers then took flight but they were captured after a hoti holl chase they would inevitably hare been lynched if the gendarme gendarmes had not strained every nerve to protect them 1 |