CHARGE OF MURDER

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1934, Page 11

CHARGE OF MURDER

NOTORIOUS WOMAN

SCENES IN PARIS COURT

CAREER RECALLED

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright, . ■ • (Eeceivea March 27, 2.30 p.m.) PABIS, March 26. Germainc Huot, forty-five, who'at the age of sixteen left the convent and became the mistress of a succession of millionaires, titled, and prominent personages, horrified the Court by re-enact-ing 'how. the revolver with which she was accused of murdering Jean Causeret, Prefect dv 'Bhone, in March, 1933, allegedly went off accidentally. The Court was crowded, with a fashionable throng, the trial overshadowing the Stavisky. sensation. Huot, dressed in black, wept while the President of the Court .detailed, a list of her lovers, including a Boyal Bavarian Duke, Persian, and Indian Princes, Chilean and Argetirte millionaires, French deputies, diplomats, and barristers,. who showered her with jewels, furs, motorcars, and luxurious flats. She was an illegitimate child, reared in 'a convent where she obtained excellent reports for assiduity, Catechism, and religious lessons. "Yet," said the President, "at sixteen you had furs and jewels, and your *own carriage and horses. • Your lovers ranged from duke to ' deputies. Your journeys in:w-ar time,.including a Channel prossing in.which your boat was torpedoed, gave the impressions you were a French spy, but it it clear you spied neither 'for Prance nor the' enemy." ... - Be-enacting the death scenes Huot borrowed a gendarme's revolver, a medical expert, Dr. Paul, taking the part of the deceased Causeret. • ■-.- "Have somesense of decency," interjected counsel for Causeret when Paul's efforts to repeat Causeret's gestures seemed to show that the Prefect would not have been killed if he,had acted as described by Huot, whose counsel interjected, questioning the efficacy of the original revolverj. with three safety catches. . •;, ■ .',.': ••,;.. The prosecutor replied: "What an extraordinary revolver; the more safety catches it has the-better it accidentally fires." . ,- .-■■■.- . ,■_.-.., ~...' , ■ The newspapers allege that the crime was political, because although her friends, lovers, -and deputies were warned immediately that: Causeret had been shot, the police were not informed for three hours, when Deputy Picard, who was Huot's lover until he introduced her to Causeret, went to the flat and telephoned M. Chiappc, Chief of Police. ;■;,,..,»-,-,/;.- .-:-;-., - .:'" Huot's prison companions have begun a week of penance, forgoing a meal daily and piling for-her-acquittal: