FRENCH JUSTICE
COMMENT IN' ERRATIC >;CHARACTER. [United Press Association .—Pj Electric • irj; I ejjagreph:-f'Copyright.] ' - LONT>ON,. -February2s. ■ ThCre/’iif'cohsiclefahle comment upon* the erratic character of French justice. At Versailles •■Court, Lady Owen, a 33 ypar old French widow of ah .-.English - -Knight, 'Sir Theodore Owen,-'who left Her a substantial, fortune, ' was sentenced .tpyfivo years solitary confine- .' meat for wounding witjh a revolver shot, the wife of a former lover. Dr (install d, in .a fit of, insane jealousy, whenGas,tnnd refused to , leave her. The three days trial _ was more in the nature of a cortVic ouera, in-, which it „ ivas shown that Lady Owen paid the ._-expenses of jda,stand on his; visits to London and Riviera, and . ’slao\vered liini ■ Eve ip/the Frenc.h press attack the savage nature of the sentence and instate. a whole string of actual murders in similar circumstances where accused •people have been acquitted. There is a. distinct feeling that the Court was influenced by the fact that Lady Owen is English. Solitary confinement in France is most strictly carried out. Prisoner, does not speak to or see anyone. . All grocers! k sell- > • ZSHARLAND’S V INEGAR. Pure, piquant and strong Popular wherever it has been tried Oht-cEnable jn bottle or bnilk.—Advt.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1931, Page 3
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