FRENCH JUSTICE
MURDERER OF, WIFE
ACQUITTED BY JURY
PARIS, 28t!i February. : Another sidelight on French justice ■ was furnished in the Court in which Lady Owen was sentenced recently. , Louis Lefcrt, a grocer, aged 38, was charged with the murder of his wife, and admitted that ho slashed her to death1 with a razor, but" declared that he could not imagino why ho killed her. He- loved his wife dearly, but was overwrought at tho lo3s of £200 in a business' deal. The jury acquitted him without leaving the ,box.
A few day*3 ■ ago, Lady Owen, tho thirty-fivc-yoav-old French widow of an. English knight, the late Sir Theodore Owen, who left her a substantial fortune, was sentenced to five years' solitary confinement for wounding with a revolver tlie wife of a former' lover, Dr. Gastaud, in a fit of insane jealousy when Gastaud refused to leave her. Even the French Press attacks the savage nature of the sentence.
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Evening Post, Issue 51, 2 March 1931, Page 9
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157FRENCH JUSTICE Evening Post, Issue 51, 2 March 1931, Page 9
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