Word: duval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this there is naught that is novel. Old histories of Paris and London tell of the concourses which attended Charles Duval, Dick Turpin, Jack Sheppard and other criminal worthies on their way to the gibbet at Tyburn and Montfaucon as the case might be. More recently this country witnessed the public testimonials paid to the life and character of Jesse James, Civil War guerrilla and highwayman, whose dashing bank raids are now so much affected. James was shot from behind by a comrade, Bob Ford, as he lay concealed in his hiding place. The American public was angered...
...case against Caillaux is similar to that against Bolo Pasha who was executed as a spy in April 1918 and that against M. Duval editor of the Bonnet Rouge which was subsidised by a German slush fund, who also went to death at Vincennes for treachery the July following. M. Malvy, a close friend of the accused and Minister of the Interior while he was Premier, is now in exile in Spain as the result of his diplomatic machinations...