CHARGE OF PARRICIDE

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 90, 13 October 1934, Page 10

CHARGE OF PARRICIDE

GIRL SENTENCED TO DEATH

MODERN LUCRETIA BORGIA

(Received October 13, 2 p.m.)

PARIS, October 12.

"I curse my father and motlrer! II is shameful!" shrieked Violette Nozieres, whom the newspapers describe as a modern Luerctia Borgia, rushing from the dock after listening to the death sentence for poisoning her father, to which she had pleaded guilty. In a sensational three-day trial the prosecution alleged that Violette Nozieres, who was 19 years old and ultra-modern, desired to kill.her parents to inherit their money. Making a pretence of administering medicine, she poured poison into glasses which she handed to her parents. Her father died almost immediately, but her mother lay for hours struggling for life. Meanwhile. Violette had. taken £25 and gone off to a night club. She returned in the morning, turned on the gas taps, and told the concierge (porter) that her parents had committed suicide. '

The defence pleaded that Violetta killed her father because he illtreated her and for,bade her to marry; her lover. The mother of the accused,' in evidence, said that the accusation against the father was abominably false. Finally the mother withdrew'a civil plaint, which she said she had brought to clear her husband's memory. She declared that she forgave everything and pleaded for her daughter's acquittal.

When the jury gave a verdict of guilty Violette shouted, "I don't want to die."

The French sentence against a parricide includes the punishment that the murderer must be paraded barefooted in a white garment, with the head veiled, before a crowd prior to execution..