MAN SHOT DEAD
Woman Racing Motorist's Action (Received 29, 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, Dec. 27. Madame Vioiette MorriB, racing motorist and former discus and weightlifting champion, who shot dead an unemployed mechanic on a barge on which she lived, figured in a test case in Paris in 1930 when she claimed damages from the French Women's Sporting Federation for expulsion, because she played tennis and other sports clad in trousers. The Court dismissed the suit on the ground that the wearing of trousers by women in society and young girls was out of place and should not be encouraged. Morris has dressed like a man for years on the ground that it is esaential to her athletic activities. The victim of the shooting was Joseph Le Camps, who celebrated Christmas Day at a fashionable Neuilly restaurant in company with Madame Morris and Baron and Baroness de Trobriand. They all separated good friends, but Le Camps next evening visited Madame Morris' houseboat moored in the Seine and accused her of creating a misunderstanding between him and the baron and baroness. Le Camps left but again returned and met his death, Madame Morris declared she shot him because he threatened to throw her overboard.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 81, 29 December 1937, Page 7
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