CRIME WAVE IN FRANCE
SERIES OF TERRIFYING MURDERS COMPLAINTS AGAINST POLICE AND JURIES BY Telegraph.—press Association —Copyright. (Rec. March 1, 7 p.m.) Paris, February 29. There has been an extraordinary series of crimes, the mystery of which is terrifying the public. There were no fewer than five crimes in to-day’s papers, including the finding of the carbonised body at Melun. There has been a horrible murder of a woman newsvendor in Paris, whose skull was smashed in by some iron instrument m her shop in broad daylight. Last week a man shot his wife dead because she refused to make a cup of coffee in the middle of the night.
The public anxiety is increased by the police failure to track the criminals in several cases, and juries, acquit, ting murderers whose guilt was plain, readily accepting counsels’ emotional appeals that the crime was an act of passion. Three accused whom the police were confident of convicting were acquitted yesterday, causing the “Temps” to make a strong plea for the immediate reform of the jury system.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 131, 2 March 1928, Page 9
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176CRIME WAVE IN FRANCE Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 131, 2 March 1928, Page 9
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