1849: Pierre Dudragne, avarice
November 5th, 2019 Headsman
On this date in 1849, Pierre Dudragne was guillotined at Chalon-sur-Saone.
He’d done a doubly dirty deed, choking out the 85-year-old widow Marechal in the course of burgling her Montmort home … and then also murdering the old lady’s servant, Claudine Bray. No honor among thieves: Bray was Dudragne’s own lover and accomplice in the heist, and his motive was the firm preference not to split the boodle with her.
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Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Beheaded,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Execution,France,Guillotine,Murder,Pelf,Theft
Tags: 1840s, 1849, chalon-sur-saone, november 5, pierre dudragne
