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Show KiLLS BABIES TO PUNISH HIS WIFE Husband, Fearing Suit for Divorce, Di-vorce, Drowns Three Boys and a Girl. Paris. M. Huguet, a farmer of Sovignac, France, is under arrest for one of the most brutal crimes committed com-mitted in France during the recent crime wave here. Huguet is charger) with having drowned his four young children in a pond in order to punish his wife, and then to have slept calmly until he was placed under arrest. According to his wife's story, he previously had shown great love for ie children, but had concentrated all Beating Them With a Club. his hatred on his wife. Finally, sh said she could stand his beatings no longer, so she went to the home of her parents, planning to return later for the children, and then to begin proceedings for a divorce. Huguet heard of her plans and went to see her, begging her to return to him. Upon hr refusal, he threatened to do something which would cause , her death within u few weeks. He returned re-turned to his home and, at midnight, drowned the four children, taking the seven-month-old boy first, then the two-year-old son, then the five-year-old boy, and finally, Marie, seven, his only daughter. The two older children sensed the tragedy and begged for their lives, hut their father was obdurate and, after beating them with a club, he threw their bodies into the pond. It is Improbable that hp will mount the guillotine, as it is believed he Is Insane In-sane and that a jury will send him to an nsylum for the rest of his life. |