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Show FOUR MEN EXPIATE CiJES Use of Guillotine Revived in France in Carrying Out Death Penalty Bethuna, Pas De Calais, France, Jan. 11. Tho first inflictions of the death sentence In France for years past were witnessed in this town today when, four murderers were decapitated by the guillotine. The four men had formed form-ed a band' which had terrorized northern north-ern France and southern Belgium for several years, robbing, assaulting and murdering at will. As they wore led out of prison, cries of vengeance arose from tho largo throng present, and when the knife fell four times in rapid succession, the people peo-ple present did not hesitate to cvinco their satisfaction. The French parliament recently passed a resolution in favor of tho death penalty in France, and' tho cabinet cab-inet a fortnight ago decided to carry out the ruling of parliament There remain today eighteen persons in Franco under sentence of death. The condemned were ignorant, up to a short time before the execution, that they were to die. They had slept undisturbed un-disturbed in the hope that their sentences sen-tences would be commuted. They attended at-tended mass and were then led out In front of the prison where the guillotine was erected. |