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Show PELTIER IS I MURDERED I Paris Stirred Over Kill- f ing of High Official j and His Nurse Paris. Feb. 5. Edoard Peltier, a high official of the French depart- ment of justice, was murdered in his f residence here today. A woman nurse who was attend- ; lug him was also killed. The double murder is believed ro have been committed by the uncap-tared uncap-tared accomplices of the automobile bandits whose trial is now going on ; here. An Act of Vengeance. It is supposed the crime was intend-ed intend-ed as an act of vengeance and warn- I ing. Peltier was formerly chief of the bureau of pardons at the ministry of justice, but had been in ill health lor some time. He was a man of con- I siderable wealth. Nurse Hacked to Pieces. He was found strangled In a chair -in his library The nurse's body lay J in another room where she had from all appearances been hacked to pieces with an axe. An investigation by the police of the young woman's past has given rise to the theory that she and the murderer were associated with the demon chauffeur'' Bonnot and his ?ang It is thought she admitted the ) murderer to the house and he, after HLV strangling Peltier, made an end of IH the sole witness. About $1000 in cash was stolen. iiLfl oo |