MURDERESS ACQUITTED.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1439, 14 May 1912, Page 5

MURDERESS ACQUITTED.

ON MEDICAL EVIDENCE. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Rec. May 13, 10.15 p.m.) Paris, May 13. Madame Pascal has been acquitted on the charge of murder. 'Die medical evidence showed that she was suficring from neurasthenia. i Madame Marguerite Pascal] a woman of thirty-five, with an excellent reputation for honesty, industry, and good sense, killed her husband and mortally wounded her aunt on December 5 last. She .acted with complete deliberation and coolness, and showed not the slightest tract of insanity or even of excitement. Slie decided on her crimes at midday. She lunched at a restaurant with her little daughter at 12.15 p.m.; shot her husband dead in his bedroom while he slept at one o'clock; went to the station and toolc train for Savigny-sur-Orge, thirteen miles away, at 2.30 p.m.; reached the house of her husband's aunt at 3.30; shot the old lady five minutes later; returned to Paris at about half-past four; said good-bye to her daughter at a quarter to five; and gave herself up to the police at five o'clock. The woman was married on October 17 last to .Tean Pascal, an ex-soldier, who saw much servico in the French colonies, and whom she had known intimately for twelve years. M. Pascal _ worked all niuht in the office of a Paris newspaper^ "I suffered much 'from my husband's "unkindness," Mmc. Pascal told the police, and his aunt, Camille Pascal, a wealthy woman of sixty-three, egged him on. I resolved to be revenged on them both this very day, and I have killed them."