SPIES IN WARTIME
SISTERS SCHMIDT OF AIX
CONDEMNED MAN'S STORY
PAElS^yJanuary 25. Georges Sarrct, condemned to death' for murders at Aix en Province, when informed that his appeal had- been rejected, made revelations at which he had previously hinted but which he had withheld. He declares that the sisters Schmidt were employed in wartime as spies against -Prance. The authorities are impressed with' the story, which involves prolonged investigation. In a sensational trial £t Aix en Frovinco a scries of charges were made against Catherine and Philomem Schmidt, beautiful German sisters, who came to Prance before the war. and married two Frenchmen, who mysteriously disappeared, and Georges Sarret, a suave, middle-aged Italian-born lawyer of Greek parentage, who has long ibeon domiciled in Prance. It was alleged that they, with accomplices, defrauded insurance companies by taking policies on the lives of people whe> disappeared. The three principals allegedly dispqsed of the bodies of tw» of their victims by dissolving them in a bath of sulphuric acid. ■ SaTrct was sentenced to be guillotined in the public square of the town, and the Schmidt sisters to ten years* penal servitude. -■ '■
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1934, Page 7
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187SPIES IN WARTIME Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1934, Page 7
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