HEAVY DAMAGES
CLAIM AGAINST GOVERNMENT
(Independent Cable Service.) (Received December 8, 10 a.m.)
PARIS, December 7,
Madame Magda de Fontange will shortly launch a five million francs damages claim against the Government for having "caused her exclusion from the United States on the ground of moral turpitude."
Madame Fontange, a former actress and journalist, shot the Comte de Chambrun, former French Ambassador to Rome, on a plafform of the Gare dv Nord, in Paris, in March, 1937. She was sentenced to a year's imprisonment, which was suspended under the First Offenders Act, and fined 100 francs. When she arrived in the United States in November, 1937, a Board of Inquiry decided that she should be excluded because of the "commission of a crime involving moral turpitude, to wit, an assault with a dangerous weapon."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 138, 8 December 1938, Page 9
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134HEAVY DAMAGES Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 138, 8 December 1938, Page 9
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