MOTHER SHOOTS HER DAUGHTER PARIS Nov. '2O. A mother who shot her daughter dead rather than see her disannul' the family name was acquitted amid cheer:at the Rouen Assizes yesterday. The daughter, a pretty 21 year-old girl named Yyonno Retit, was loud of frequenting dance halls, and often returned home in the early hours. Thor, she stayed out all night, and when her mother remonstrated with her she said that she was of age and was free to dp as she liked. A few days later the girl started to pack her trunks, and told her mother that she was going to Paris to live her own life. The mother pleaded with her to change her mind. The girl refused and a quarrel ensued during which the mother took her husband's revolver from a diawer and shot her daughter four times. The girl died in hospital. u [ did not want my daughter to go to Paris and go wrong." the mother sobbed in court. ‘‘l n referred to see her dead and myself too. rather than that she should dishonour our name.’’ 'flic evidence showed that the mollrw was a hard-working business woman.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1929, Page 8
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193Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1929, Page 8
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