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Show j STILLOVES ma I'D KiLLHi i 1 (By Milton Bronner?) PARIS, Jan 7 "Pardon niaraan!" (French for "pardon mother.") ; Tho cry rang out in the dark court 'room at Quimper in Brittany. It was tho appeal of an 11-year-old boy shouted just before he gave testimony tes-timony that sent his mother to prison for 20 years i Louise Niqulet, the mother, sat In the prisoner's docket. She was accused of the murder of her 7-year-old son. Per-nand. Per-nand. and of the attempted murder of another son, Armand. 11. One morning the mother went out walking with her sons along thn Brit tany sea coast. She returned alone and said the boys had been butted over a cliff by h goal By,the boys' death sne would become be-come heir to a small property their , dead father had leit ihem and would! be Ire to marry a uiun who said he Pardoru main an ' did not want ibe encumbrance of children. chil-dren. ONE NEVER RETURNED Bernand never returned Arm ami I did- several days later, bruised and' bleeding. He (old his story to many, fishermen. Then realized it mlgh. make trouble for his mother and kept silent. At the trial Armand was suddenly brought Into court. He refused to an-j swer questions. Finally the judge said: "I will not I ask you If your mother pushed you Into tho sea. But answer mo this: When you 'told fishermen of the al (air did you tell the truth'" Armand. held hia arms out to hi", mother, shouted, "Pardon mamau,"j and then, to tho Judge, whispered, "Yos." Louiso Niquct was saved from the guillotine but drew a 20-year term' at bard labor.- As she was b. iug led away she anid: "See what you have done to your mother, moth-er, little one. Some day. when you are a man. you will know hitler remorse re-morse " And. as the mother was taken away, armand rep i'ed shrilly, "Pardon ls man." |