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The Newport Gazette
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island
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Letter from Paris dated Dec. 11 reports a horrific robbery in Normandy near Dieppe: six criminals entered a 90-year-old gentleman's home, stole valuables, murdered him, his wife, and two servants, and mutilated the bodies. Five were captured and executed brutally, showing no remorse.
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"A letter I this moment received at Dieppe in Normandy, gives me the dreadful account of six villains having entered the house of a country gentleman, of ninety, stripped the mansion of all its valuable effects, murdered the old man, wife and two of the servants, and then mangled the dead bodies in the most horrid and barbarous manner. Five of the desperate gang were apprehended; my correspondent, eye witness of the greatest end, says they died as they lived, broken alive near the place, they did show the least signs of repentance on the contrary, manifested the most desperate obduracy."
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Dieppe In Normandy
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old man (aged ninety), his wife, and two servants murdered; bodies mangled. five of six villains apprehended and executed by being broken alive, showing no repentance.
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Six villains entered the house of a country gentleman aged ninety, stripped the mansion of valuables, murdered the old man, his wife, and two servants, and mangled the dead bodies barbarously. Five were apprehended; an eyewitness correspondent reported they died with desperate obduracy.