The road mower was killed by his wife who confessed to her criminal act

LIMOGES, August 16. Following an operation necessitated by his condition, Mr. Jacques Petiniaud, fifty-one years old, head road worker in Saint-Jouvent (Haute-Vienne), succumbed at the hospital in Limoges.

He had been taken there several weeks ago, following an accident that allegedly happened to him on the road, while returning from work. But public rumor accused the road worker's wife, born Marguerite Tricaud, forty-four years old, of having killed her husband.

In fact, the couple did not live in harmony. The couple drank a little and had violent arguments. The details and accusations made against the road worker's wife were such that on Friday, August 15, the gendarmerie decided to carry out a judicial transport, in agreement with the investigating judge. It was rendered useless by Mrs. Tricaud, who, of her own accord, went to the office of the deputy public prosecutor and told the magistrate: "I killed my husband, I put myself at your disposal."

The interrogation that the defendant underwent immediately made it possible to know in what circumstances the road worker was fatally struck. During a violent scene, and believing herself to be threatened, Mrs. Tricaud grabbed a spade and struck her husband with it. The accused was incarcerated in the remand center.

Two abandoned children

The police commissioner of Pantin sent, yesterday, to the Hospice des Enfants-Assistés the children Charles and Jacob Petit, aged seven and eleven, who were found abandoned by their mother who lived in a caravan on Avenue Jean-Jaurès.

Victim of a car accident, a mason dies in hospital
Last night, opposite number 162 of the boulevard de la Gare, a man carrying papers in the name of Pierre Noice, forty-four years old, mason, residing at 169, same boulevard, was knocked down by a car driven by Alfred Delaite, established butcher, 18, rue de Saïda. The injured man, who was in a coma, succumbed at 4 o'clock in the morning at the Pitié hospital where he had been taken.

The murder of the Melun laborer is due to jealousy

MELUN, August 16. The Melun gendarmerie arrested the author of the murder of the Belgian laborer Camille Van Acker, whose body was discovered on the road near Fontenailles.

The culprit is a compatriot of the victim, named Emile Volkaere, aged thirty-seven. He confessed his crime, and said he committed it because he suspected Van Acker of being his wife's friend. Volkaere was imprisoned.

Killed by his friend's daughter

BEAUVAIS, August 16. Last night. in Savignies, a small town near Beauvais, Paul Gazier, forty-three years old, having returned home in a drunken state, had a violent argument with his friend, the widow Lemaire, and the latter's daughter, Georgette, nineteen years old.
His friend having tried to flee, Gazier threatened her with a rifle, but young Georgette then took a revolver and fired it at him. Mortally wounded, Gazier collapsed and died almost immediately. The murderess has been arrested.

Tragic bathing of two children

AVIGNON, August 16. Two children, the brothers Gustave and Dominique Ricci, aged nine and twelve respectively, were bathing in the Sorgue. The youngest had made a belt with empty gasoline cans. Unfortunately, the cans, badly sealed, filled with water, and the child sank. His body could not be found.

Caught in a belt and thrown against a wall.

CHAMBÉRY, August 16. In an electro-mechanical factory in Saint-Béron, Mr. Jean Laurut, aged thirty, busy resinating belts, was caught by a transmission and thrown against a wall where he had several ribs crushed. Transported to his home, he died there without regaining consciousness.

Seized by congestion, a bather drowns

LE HAVRE. August 16. While bathing, Mr. Poulet, aged fifty-four, a mover in Paris, 40, rue Condorcet, was seized by congestion 30 meters from the shore. Rescued by his son-in-law, Mr. Marcel Paradis, and by a lifeguard, he was able to be brought ashore, but he soon succumbed.

The murderous coachman

VICHY, August 16. Mr. Letocart, a molder, aged nineteen, returning home, had an argument with a coachman that degenerated into a fight. Suddenly, the coachman rushed at Mr. Letocart and stabbed him violently. Hit in the region of the heart, the young man was taken to hospital in an alarming state. The murderer is being actively sought.

CAR ACCIDENTS

A car overturns, one dead, three injured

BORDEAUX, August 16. Mr. Bastide, co-director of the Femina theater, was driving through the Alouette with his wife, his mother-in-law and her sister, Mrs. Nau, widow. To avoid the main road congested with many vehicles, he took a side road. But the car sank into a pothole and, a tire having burst, overturned.
Mrs. Nau, widow, fifty-eight years old, her skull fractured, was killed instantly: Mr. Bastide had a rib pressed by the steering wheel; Mrs. Bastide complains of internal pain, and her mother has multiple bruises.

Little girl crushed

REIMS, August 16. Simone Gaillet, aged nine, daughter of a railway mechanic, was crossing the avenue Victor-IIugo, in Sainte-Menehould, yesterday evening, when she was hit by a car coming from Clermont-en-Argonne and driven by Mr. Rodolphe Strybos, aged twenty-four, a stockbroker in Antwerp. Dragged for a distance of about twenty meters, the little girl was picked up in a serious state and taken to her parents' home by the person who caused the accident.