18 Months For Killing
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A Sailor
LUCIEN PAULIN, a young man who a year ago stole a bus with it’s two passengers and after driving like a madman through the streets of Noumea, knocked down and beheaded a "young sailor was, in June, sentenced to 18 months prison.
He was also required to pay the parents of the victim (who live in
Fiance), 300,000 francs (£2,000).
This accident was not Paulin’s first.
Three years before, in a similar escapade, he ran down and killed an elderly man only 100 yards from where he ran down the unfortunate sailor. t A group of more than 20 officers of the NZ Girls’ Life Brigade paid a visit to Western Samoa, Mrs. J. Smith, of Dunedin, Dominion president of the brigade is leader of the party.