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Fort Wayne News
Indiana, USA
27 January 1898

Lyons, Jan. 27.
Vacher, the shepherd under arrest charged with the murder of thirty eight persons, made a furious attack upon the prison keeper last night and almost beat him to death with a chair before assistance arrived.


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  Joseph Vacher
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