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disputed in later literature as possibly just having been an assault and robbery or also an assault, robbery, and rape. He was apprehended and accused that same night, for the cries for help alerted some in the city, and a nearby guard arrested
Pelletier. Judge Jacob Augustin Moreau, the District Judge of Sens, was to hear the case.
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The execution took place at 3:30 pm. Pelletier was led to the scaffold wearing a red shirt. The large crowd predicted by
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Pelletier routinely associated with a group of known criminals. On the night of 14 October 1791, with several unknown accomplices, he attacked a passerby in the rue
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the only legal method of capital punishment. Pelletier waited in jail for more than three months as the guillotine was built in
Strasbourg under the direction of the surgeon Antoine Louis, at a cost of thirty-eight
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