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Show I GIRL, BEATEN AND ! BURNED, IS FORCED j TO DRINK POISON QUEBEC, April 22. Mrs. Marie Anne Houdo Gagnon was found guilty yesterday of torturing and murdering her 16-year-old stepdaughter, step-daughter, Auroro Gagnon, and was sentenced to be hanged October 1. The girl, after being beaten, burned with a red hot poker and i made to walk barefoot In the anow was forced to drink poison, the evidence disclosed. The post mortem examination of the body revoaled 54 wounds. The defense pleaded insanity. |