CRIMES IN FRANCE
THE PUBLIC TERRIFIED FAILURE TO CAPTURE CRIMINALS PARIS, February 29. There has been an extraordinary series of crimes, the mystery of which is terrifying tho public.! There are no fewer than five crimes reported in today’s papers, including that of the carbonised body of Melun. There has been a horrible murder of a woman newsvendor in Paris, whose skull was smashed in by some iron instrument in her shop in broad daylight. Last week a man shot his wife dead because she refused to make a cup of coffee in the middle_ of the night. Public anxiety is increased by the police failure to track the criminals in several cases, and the juries acquitting murderers whose guilt was plain, readily accepting counsel's emotional appeals that the crime was an act of pas«ion. Three accused whom the police were confident of convicting were acquitted yesterday, causing ‘ Lo Temps ’ to make a strong plea for immediate reform of the jury system.
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Evening Star, Issue 19805, 2 March 1928, Page 4
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162CRIMES IN FRANCE Evening Star, Issue 19805, 2 March 1928, Page 4
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